“Avoidance and retreat are usually the best and initial strategy for handling any physical conflict self-defense situation, especially if you are carrying… — Col Ben Findley Copy Share Image
If you must use your hands, use them with all the strength you possess... If you choose to strike, by all means… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
I have been in a 'man's' world as long as I can remember. I was an engineering major in college, I am… — Eve Torres Copy Share Image
“Always remember – display of a firearm in Florida makes it a jury question whether the display was “aggravated assault”, improper exhibition,… — Jon Gutmacher Copy Share Image
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Anyone who willfully and maliciously attacks another without sufficient cause deserves no consideration. — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
“It seemed my self defense skills had that effect on people, I thought, remembering when I threw Halette over my shoulder in… — Elle Klass Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that the Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess and use guns for purposes of both hunting and… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
The dream of my life has risen to become fact. Self-defense in the ghetto will have been a reality. Jewish armed resistance… — Mordechai Anielewicz Copy Share Image
In nature, creatures never ended the lives of others except to survive. To women, abortion was self-defense and preservation of the species.… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
Real schools ought to provide people with techniques of self-defense, but that would mean teaching the truth about the world and about… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Part of why I was attracted to the idea of owning a gun was self-defense, and part of it was that I've… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
In fact, if law were restricted to protecting all persons, all liberties, and all properties; if law were nothing more than the… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The human instinct for self-preservation is strong. I know, because mine pulls at me, too, like the needle on a compass. And… — Nancy Werlin Copy Share Image
Behind the deceptive words designed to entice people into supporting violence -- words like democracy, freedom, self-defense, national security -- there is… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
When we express our needs indirectly through the use of evaluations, interpretations, and images, others are likely to hear criticism. When people… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“One thing people wonder is why the Jews did not defend themselves, why we were like lambs led to the slaughter. In… — Jack Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
No man may initiate the use of physical force against others. No man-or group or society or government-has the right to assume… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“She was intensely sympathetic. She was immensely charming. She was utterly unselfish. She excelled in the difficult arts if family life. She… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Some women chose to embody this new form of physical empowerment & transformed their words into actions. Exhibition boxer Minnie Rosenblatt Besser… — Wendy L. Rouse Copy Share Image
“...I'd killed my self-defense instructor. Shit. I ran to where he lay and stumbled to a crouch at his side, touching his… — Carrie Vaughn Copy Share Image
Number one, we need to get in shape, number two we need to shoot, number three, we need to learn self-defense, and… — Matt Shea Copy Share Image
“Many black women also kept guns within easy reach. But it is important to mention that women & their use of guns… — Charles E. Cobb Copy Share Image
“The normative principle I am suggesting for the law is simply this: No action should be considered illicit or illegal unless it… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
My father was the first person to introduce me to self-defense and martial arts, which I've been doing all my life now. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
“There are many legal and psychological ramifications to using Krav Maga in the real world and nearly all of them are extremely… — Craig De Ruisseau Copy Share Image
I am so glad people have started making films n martial arts and self-defense, which is actually the need of the hour. — Akshay Kumar Copy Share Image
The best form of self defense is to become invisible... If you can't do that learn Wing Chun! — Wong Shun Leung Copy Share Image
With sovereignty and security comes the inherent right of self-defense, a right that every state, including our own, takes for granted. Why… — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
Let your attacker worry about his life. Don't hold back. Strike no more after he is incapable of further action, but see… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
What you do to prevent further felonious assault, as long as the felon is still capable of action, is justified. — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Self-defense is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself. — William Barclay Copy Share Image
I became a dancer in self-defense. I was doing a comedy monologue and didn't know how else to get off, so I… — Ray Bolger Copy Share Image
I think men need classes on how to treat a woman, rather than women taking self defense classes so we aren't assaulted… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is true that a victim who fights back may suffer for it, but one who does not almost certainly will suffer… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
I would, therefore, say that for no reason whatsoever, except in self-defense, should one think of killing any animal. — Morarji Desai Copy Share Image
“You can't go anywhere if you just resign yourself to being attacked. A state of chronic powerlessness eats away at a person.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That's what the Supreme Court… — Laurence Tribe Copy Share Image
“Sticks and stones can break my bones and I have my Swiss Army Knife if they hit me and if I kill… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image