Henry Rollins Quotes

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious.

Even if they don't know it, everyone has the instinct to survive.

I have a self-defense mind. I've had it all my life.

I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation.

My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.

In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.

Protect yourself like you would your cubs - as a grown woman, you're no one's cub anymore.

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

I'm not tough, and I never have been. I suppose over the years I've built up kind of a veneer to protect myself because I have functioned on my own for a long, long time, and I have never had a lot of flunkies preceding me to clear the way.

I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.

The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of.

Self-preservation is the first responsibility.

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

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.

We should be able to defend ourselves by ourselves.

I don't trust anyone... It's something that I have to live with, and I have to find the balance of who I want in my life and who isn't good for me.

People want to be able to protect themselves.

I never had any desire to defend myself, and never did I seriously think about it.

You grow up rough, you think differently. You think you've got to protect yourself at all times. I didn't want any help. I thought I could do everything by myself, which you can't.

The one thing that I learned from politics is you have to know how to watch your own back - and in some instances, you gotta watch your front, too.

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

I am definitely not under British protection. I have to protect myself. I am not M.I.6. I am not C.I.A. I am not anything.

I can't take nothing for granted. I have to really protect myself - either get out of bounds or continue to finish the play.

I conditioned myself many years ago that nobody could hurt me.