1,621 Quotes About Violence

Warum tun Männer Frauen so etwas an? Zum Teil deswegen, weil sie nichts daran hindert. Normen und Sanktionen werden selten gegen die sexuelle Versklavung von Frauen angewandt. Wie das Kind, das alle Schranken, auf die es stößt, testet, bis sich ein Erwachsener einschaltet, gibt es Männer, die jeden menschlichen Wert, jeden Maßstab für menschlichen Anstand, jede Spur von Achtung vor menschlichem Leben über fast jedes Tabu hinaus mit Füßen treten.

The gun has become more mightier than the pen and the sword.

The threatening to, harsh aggression, made her submissive. (Across Time And Space)

The threatening tone, harsh aggression, made her submissive (Across Time And Space)

One by one, they pushed ahead to get a swipe at Ruth, her only ally the narrow confines of the bus aisle.

The prolonged use of violence may lead in the end to the loss of freedom, since it is liable to bring about not a dispassionate rule of reason, but the rule of the strong man. A violent revolution which tries to attempt more than the destruction of tyranny is at least as likely to bring about another tyranny as it is likely to achieve its real aims.

I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defense when and wherever needed.

...a freeze response (dissociation, collapse, numbing, paralysis, deadness) during the incident that threatened your life or limb. Sometimes it's difficult for people to understand that this is really survival response...

Violent love eats up what it does love, and it is mere appetite. I scribbled on the bottom of this before sending it back: I would sooner cut my own flesh than do you a hurt. You should not have tried to get between us! But only come to see me, and another time I will stand and let me beat to a mummy.