Top Self-Defense Quotes
I only direct in self-defense.
Mel Brooks
The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
Ida B. Wells
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
George Orwell
Murder begins where self-defense ends.
Georg Buchner
The President has launched a very agressive campaign of self-defense, with the goal of getting Americans to buy into his vision of America on the world stage.
Gwen Ifill
Famous Self-Defense Authors
John Adams
Gloria Steinem
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Georg Buchner
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Karl Liebknecht
Ed Gillespie
Ida B. Wells
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All Self-Defense Quotes
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
Bill Moyers 
47% of people like this quote
My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.
Fred A. Allen
46% of people like this quote
In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.
Loretta Young
45% of people like this quote
When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.
Stephen Carter
45% of people like this quote
Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.
John Adams
38% of people like this quote