Top 51 Quotes About Self Defence
#1. Self-defense was an accepted motive for murder.
Farrah Naseem
#2. Our lives consist of a series of internal battles, deep within us, where weapons don't exist and technology is unable to create devices that better the best of yesterday. Our knowledge is our only defense; caution, our only friend.
A.J. Darkholme
#4. This arrogance thing ... I've had that my whole life. I flip between, 'Oh really? Oh, thank you. Wow. That's amazing' and, 'Yeah! Of course I am.' They're both varying degrees of a self-defence mechanism. It can be from minute to minute that I change.
James Corden
#5. The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.
Mahatma Gandhi
#6. By his willingly renouncing self-defence, the Christian affirms his absolute adherence to Jesus, and his freedom from the tyranny of his own ego. The exclusiveness of this adherence is the only power which can overcome evil.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#7. We dream of a day when India is completely self-reliant in defence production & exports defence equipment worldwide.
Narendra Modi
#8. Adora Belle fought back, and to make sure fought back even before she was attacked.
Terry Pratchett
#9. We are self-uncertain creatures, and we may Yea, even when we know not, mix our spites And private hates with our defence of Heaven.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#10. For three long days, I felt the cold hand of death on my shoulder. Lost in the depths of despair I tried to figure out what I had done to deserve this. I wasn't an evil person. The worst thing I'd ever done was kick a pig - School trip to Heston Farm, 1964, I maintain it was self-defence.
Alan Partridge
#11. What do they mean 'serial killers'! said Serge. (person 1), okay. But (person 2) was self-defence and the (person 3)-I mean, that was the World Series! You can call me a murderer, fair is fair, but as soon as you put 'serial' in front of it, everyone automatically thinks your crazy.
Tim Dorsey
#12. We resign to civil society our natural rights of self-defence only on condition that the ordinances of law should protect us.
Walter Scott
#13. A decent government with an effective, but not gratuitously violent, police force and a fair court system are essential. This deters and incapacitates psychopaths, bullies and hotheads - and if it earns the confidence of the people, they don't have to become violent in self-defence.
Steven Pinker
#14. [Somali maritime violence] is a response to greedy Western nations, who invade and exploit Somalia's water resources illegally. It is not a piracy, it is self defence. It is defending the Somalia children's food.
Muammar Al-Gaddafi
#15. The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack.
Benazir Bhutto
#17. Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#18. Self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#19. It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.
Douglas Hurd
#20. Enlightened self-interest from those involved in hydrocarbons should lead to the support of technologies enabling the clean use of hydrocarbons, such as carbon capture and storage, and not to the defence of deniers and cranks.
Nicholas Stern
#21. In self-defence, you know, all life eventually accommodates itself to its environment, and human life is no exception.
Jacob A. Riis
#22. War is never lenient but where it is wanton; where men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge. This may be bad, but it is human nature; it is the clay as it came from the hands of the Potter.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#23. Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.
Mahatma Gandhi
#24. The academic mind, as we know, is sometimes capable of assuming an aggressive attitude. The official mind, on the contrary, is and has to be, expert in the art of self-defence.
Ronald Fisher
#25. A damsel in complete distress was a burden to her protectors; one familiar with self defence, not as much.
Grace Draven
#26. Legitimate steps of self-defence which Israel takes in its war against Palestinian terror - actions which any sovereign state is obligated to undertake to ensure the security of its citizens - are presented by those who hate Israel as aggressive, Nazi-like steps.
Ariel Sharon
#27. Self-defence, self-confidence, discipline and self control. The values you learn are priceless.
Rickson Gracie
#28. If she and Sam ever had kids, they'd be gluten-intolerant out of self-defence.
Maggie Stiefvater
#29. Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me.
Brooke Shields
#30. Sometimes people put walls up to see who is strong enough to break them down!
Stephen Richards
#31. Loss of appetite is one of the first symptoms. When your body hasn't a clue what's going on, it tends to shut down in self-defence.
Jodi Taylor
#32. If we pick a fight, then we're just as bad as them. Combat should be used just to help people who can't defend themselves, period."
"Well, if I don't fight back and they pound on me, then I'm one of the people I should be defending.
Tamora Pierce
#33. A people morally and intellectually equal to self-government must also be equal in self-defence.
Jefferson Davis
#34. I can't bear to be on a train without a book", she announced. " It's a form of self-defence in a way" .
John Boyne
#35. He could not forget the touch of her arms around his neck, impatiently felt as it had been at the time; but now the recollection of her clinging defence of him, seemed to thrill him through and through, - to melt away every resolution, all power of self-control, as if it were wax before a fire.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#36. But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form of collective self-defence by the loyal members of the League.
Arthur Henderson
#37. Differentiating from parental introjects and psychological defences based on the emotional pain of childhood is essential not only for neurotic or seriously disturbed individuals; it is a central developmental issue in every person's life.
Lisa Firestone
#38. We dream of an India that is self-sufficient in producing defence equipment using the latest technology.
Narendra Modi
#39. I would, therefore, say that for no reason whatsoever, except in self-defence, should one think of killing any animal.
Morarji Desai
#40. One can even kill a cow in self defence ...
Vineet Asopa
#41. Arbitrary government operating by force, by terror, must destroy the best, the boldest dissenters in sheer self-defence; soon it finds itself destroying all who, on the one hand, do not actively assist it or, on the other, do not passively submit.
Edward Crankshaw
#42. Another form on sagacity and self-defence consists in reacting as seldom as possible and withdrawing from situations and relationships in which one would be condemned as it were to suspend ones 'freedom', ones initiative, and become a mere reagent.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#43. The very purpose of an ego defence such as reification (or indeed any ego defence) is, as the name implies, to protect and uphold a certain crystallized notion of self or 'I'. There is therefore an important sense in which the reifying self is itself reified.
Neel Burton
#44. If it is legitimate to kill in self-defence then it must be equally legitimate to steal in self-defence
Agona Apell
#45. The self-defence class was a mixed bunch, chosen because each had once been in mortal danger.
Angie Sage
#46. Compromise is a choice. As is the defence of one's self.
Fennel Hudson
#47. For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.
Margaret Thatcher
#48. Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
Imelda Marcos
#49. Never underestimate the kick to the groin.
Bas Rutten
#50. Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#51. Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.
Susan Sontag
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