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Quotes About Violence

I have always hated war and am by nature and philosophy a pacifist, but it is the English who are forcing war on us, and the first principle of war is to kill the enemy.
~ Constance Markievicz
Wars cannot be won by destroying women and children
~ William D. Leahy
We must unite. Violence against women cannot be tolerated, in any form, in any context, in any circumstance, by any political leader or by any government.
~ Ban Ki-moon
Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.
~ Nicole Kidman
There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable.
~ Ban Ki-moon
The greatest threat to women (and by extension humanity) is the growth and acceptance of a misogynistic, authoritarian, and violent culture of militarism.
~ Amina Mama
Toxic masculinity hurts men, but there's a big difference between women dealing with the constant threat of being raped, beaten, and killed by the men in their lives, and men not being able to cry.
~ Robert Jensen
Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man downstairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that, that's my job. But argue with women in love—no thank you!
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
My niece was a sexual-assault victim. My sister is a survivor of domestic violence. We have more shelters for animals than for battered women. That's not the message we should be sending.
~ Hilda Solis
Because women and girls are not valued equally as human beings, they are treated as less than such. Female genital mutilation is one example of this that has to be stopped.
~ Waris Dirie
Can't punch women in the face!
~ Jim Jefferies
A woman who is unfaithful deserves to be shot.
~ Pancho Villa
Women have a better chance to secure freedom and protect themselves from violence, from abuse, from injustice, if they are well-educated and know their rights.
~ Laura Bush
When violence against women is no longer societally accepted, no longer kept secret; when everyone understands that even one case is too many. That's when it will change.
~ Joe Biden
Violence against women is still treated as a lesser crime. Armed groups turn it into a weapon of choice because of near total impunity.
~ Angelina Jolie
Men, permitted to put words (and other things) in women's mouths, create scenes in which women desperately want to be bound, battered, tortured, humiliated, and killed.
~ Catharine MacKinnon
Kill the Germans, wherever you find them! Every German is our moral enemy. Have no mercy on women, children, or the aged! Kill every German - wipe them out!
~ Ilya Ehrenburg
There's been an awful lot of silence in make culture about this ongoing tragedy of men's violence against women and children... we need to break that silence, and we need more men to do that.
~ Jackson Katz
Meanwhile, every eighteen seconds a man beats a woman, every three minutes a man rapes a woman, and every day two men will murder women. And that's just in the United States.
~ Lierre Keith
Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.
~ Samantha Power
So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because of it?
~ Kathleen Hanna
The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.
~ Gloria Steinem
The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.
~ Ida B. Wells
Men take what women make and claim it as their own.Men don't love childrenThey kill them in a heartbeat to hurt a woman
~ Jessica Valenti