Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Women are constantly being taught how to defend themselves against attack from men. I would like to shift the perception. I want to say that that responsibility should no longer rest on the shoulders of women alone.

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

I only direct in self-defense.

Everyone has different ways of defending themselves.

Obviously I'm not a violent person; I don't like violence, but I would definitely go into defending myself if the situation arose.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

Your security is not in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaida. Your security is in your own hands.

If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns.

Everybody certainly has the right to defend themselves. That's not to say that they should defy common sense by avoiding or diffusing confrontation. And that's very, very important.

The United States is going to defend itself under any circumstances.

Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other people's best interests.

It emasculated people to be protected in this way... [They should] be used to protecting themselves.

I wasn’t being non-nonviolent, I was just protectin’ my family.

Anger can be a useful emotion; it's built into our genetic code to help with self preservation. But it can also be destructive, even when it is justified.

I always think that the ability to fight and defend oneself is a skill that every man should have but endeavour never to use, you know?

I knew as a kid that every decision I was going to be making, I would have full responsibility. So I knew I had to do what's right and protect myself, you know?

Sometimes, when life moves along, you're presented with situations where you find it necessary to speak because so many people either seem to be afraid to or, more sinister, are unwilling to face things and let things go and worry about their own situations.

Nobody else is going to protect yourself. You've got to protect yourself.

Fighting, you have to be selfish.

If a man puts a lion's family in jeopardy, what would it do? Would it enjoy fighting? Of course it wouldn't, but it's going to fight.

Our obligation is to ourselves and obligating to ourselves the job of defending and protecting America is how we serve other people around the world, not by letting this country go to hell. We are under no such obligation.

In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.

You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

We have to take care of our own game. There's only one place we've got to stick up for ourselves and that's the pitch.

Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.