Rory Miller famous quotes

The only defense against evil, violent people is good people who are more skilled at violence.
-- Rory Miller

#Gun #People #Evil

It's often been said, "Violence never solved anything." The simple truth is that when you are slammed up against the wall and the knife is at your throat, when a circle of teenagers is kicking you as you curl into a ball on the sidewalk, or when the man walks into your office building or school with a pair of guns and starts shooting, only violence, or the reasonable threat of violence, is going to save your life. In the extreme moment, only force can stop force.
-- Rory Miller

#Wall #Teenager #School

It's better to avoid than to run; better to run than to de-escalate; better to de-escalate than to fight; better to fight than to die. The very essence of self-defense is a thin list of things that might get you out alive when you are already screwed.
-- Rory Miller

#Running #Fighting #Self

Why is a caterpillar wrapped in silk while it changes into a butterfly? So the other caterpillars can't hear the screams. Change hurts
-- Rory Miller

#Hurt #Butterfly #Scream

Better to avoid than run, better to run than de-escalcate, better to de-escalate than fight, better to fight than die.
-- Rory Miller

#Running #Fighting #Dies

Here's a rule of life: You don't get to pick what bad things happen to you
-- Rory Miller

#Rules Of Life #Happens #Picks

No intelligent man has ever lost a fight to someone who said 'I'm gonna kick your ass'.
-- Rory Miller

#Fighting #Men #Intelligent

It is much easier and safer to scare someone into submission than to beat them into submission.
-- Rory Miller

#Scare #Submission #Self Defense

The dream is damned and dreamer too if dreaming's all that dreamers do.
-- Rory Miller

#Dream #Dreamer #Ifs

Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.

Eating disorders are like a gun that's formed by genetics, loaded by a culture and family ideals, and triggered by unbearable distress.

You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.

Fear and hatred are the legacy of Ronald Reagan. America's vision of peace and freedom [is being] blasted by the guns of the U.S. Navy in Lebanon, the guns of U.S. paratroopers in Grenada, and the guns of U.S. helicopters in Honduras and El Salvador.

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.

Now you see. We are all fugitives. We have always been fugitives from the void. Whatever comfort, whatever power we gain from outside of ourselves diminishes us -- because comfort and power, unless they are won from the void inside of us, are illusions that make us forget the emptyness that carries us. When we forget that, we believe we deserve comfort and power and so are capable of any evil. We deserve nothing but what we make of ourselves. We deserve nothing else. And when we understand that, then nothing is enough.