{"quotes":[{"text":"Sarra looked at her daughter and said reproachfully, 'Speaking of war, I never raised you to be always fighting and killing. That's not woman's work.'It's needful, Ma. You taught me a woman has to know how to defend herself.'I never!' gasped Sarra, indignant.'You taught me when you were murdered in your own house,' Daine said quietly.","author":"Tamora Pierce","tags":["daine","death","fighting","sad","self-defense"],"id":3429,"author_id":"Tamora+Pierce"},{"text":"No party has renounced the right to armed resistance, in certain circumstances without lying.","author":"Friedrich Engels","tags":["revolution","self-defense","violence"],"id":30406,"author_id":"Friedrich+Engels"},{"text":"Self defense is the inherent right of an individual to repel any unwarranted attack. Governments are not individuals and should not have the power to restrict or invalidate a person's ability to defend him/herself.","author":"GunFreeZone.net","tags":["civil-rights","gun-control","human-rights","self-defense"],"id":37174,"author_id":"GunFreeZone.net"},{"text":"In fact, if law were restricted to protecting all persons, all liberties, and all properties; if law were nothing more than the organized combination of the individual's right to self-defense; if law were the obstacle, the check, the punisher of all oppression and plunder — is it likely that we citizens would then argue much about the extent of the franchise?","author":"Frédéric Bastiat","tags":["government","law","plunder","property","self-defense"],"id":62226,"author_id":"Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric+Bastiat"},{"text":"Raff,' Katsa said, 'your problem is that your heart's not in it. We need to find something to strengthen your defensive resolve. What if you pretended he's trying to smash your favorite medicinal plant?''The rare blue safflower,' Bann suggested.'Yes,' Katsa said gamely, 'pretend he's after your snaf.","author":"Kristin Cashore","tags":["bad-fathers","flowers","self-defense"],"id":117940,"author_id":"Kristin+Cashore"},{"text":"The Second Amendment is timeless for our Founders grasped that self-defense is three-fold: every free individual must protect themselves against the evil will of the man, the mob and the state.","author":"Tiffany Madison","tags":["founding-fathers","freedom","government-corruption","gun-control","gun-laws","gun-rights","guns","liberty","politics","politics-of-the-united-states","second-amendment","self-defense","tyranny"],"id":119232,"author_id":"Tiffany+Madison"},{"text":"The duel may go on for long, but the self-defense often wins over the self-reproach.","author":"Pawan Mishra","tags":["defeat","duel","life","mental","self-defense","self-reproach","win","wisdom","wise"],"id":126062,"author_id":"Pawan+Mishra"},{"text":"When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["consciousness","honesty","human-nature","lying","man","penalize","psychology","punishment","reaction","response","self-defense","unconscious-mind"],"id":154225,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Fear never leaves you. It just adapts to you. And that’s the meaning of strengthening a warrior spirit from within, as you can’t fight all your battles with the same weapons.","author":"Bryan Keyleader","tags":["defense","fighting","self-defense","warrior"],"id":167637,"author_id":"Bryan+Keyleader"},{"text":"Then his fingers trembled on her ankle—tightened around her foot. His head shifted, turning toward her. With a growl, she crashed the poker down onto his head. His hand jerked. A gurgling noise arose, not from his throat but from his chest, from deep down, as if he were fighting for something. Struggling. His eyes shifted toward her. Joan raised the poker again. The gurgling stopped—not abruptly but in a final, lingering, prolonged, exhalation of breath. His lungs gradually expelled every last atom of oxygen.","author":"Cate Campbell Beatty","tags":["anger","death-and-dying","final-breath","murder","self-defense","violent-death"],"id":175153,"author_id":"Cate+Campbell+Beatty"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":41,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}