1,621 Quotes About Violence

Women quickly learn that rape is only a crime in theory; in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is not set at the level of experience of women's violation but just above the level of coercion acceptable to men.

Oh, how I prefer the honest violence of men, who will bash in another man's skull and be done, to the thousand shallow cuts of women's malice.

The Gun Stops Here (What Gandhi meant but never said)

Violence leads to one thing only, and that is more violence.

Likewise, however little man, in living, demands as just to himself, his duty toward justice remains infinite. The right to live cannot be paid by finite labour, only by infinite activity. Because you participate in the violence of all things, all of this violence is part of your debt to justice. All of your activity must go toward eradicating this: to give everything and demand nothing; this is the duty—where duties and rights may be, I do not know.

Stop. Shooting. Stars burn out like bullets falling from the sky.

The practice of untouchability, cruel as it was- the broom tied to the waist, the pot hung around the neck- was the performative, ritualistic end of the practice of caste. The real violence of the caste was the denial of entitlement: to land, to wealth, to knowledge, to equal opportunity.

When she pushes the button, the secretarywill say, "Yes?" from a thousand miles away, and Beverly will say, "Something violenthappened here," she among usunderstanding this is one waythe violent get you: not by comingfor you, but by leaving you behind.

Criticisms and revolt do not solve a thing, what does, in actuality, not in theory, is awareness of the reality.