Quotes About Violence

The mechanism of violence is what destroys women, controls women, diminishes women and keeps women in their so-called place.

We need to take violence against women seriously. It is the biggest indicator of whether a country is violent inside itself, and whether it will be militarily violent against another country.

Why are women raped far away (say, Bosnia) called victims, while those raped nearby (say, a local campus) are playing victim politics?

Where men come to and women come together most intimately in sexuality in the home has become suffused with violence.

They would say well there's always been wars, men have always beaten women. But it isn't true in all cultures. It doesn't have to be true. And the first step is imaging.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience.

But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed.

Violence toward women isn't cultural; it's criminal.

I am going to ensure that LGBTQ Americans have full equality under the law and address the urgent crisis of violence against transgender women of color.

Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting.

Women do not get raped because they weren't careful enough. Women get raped because someone raped them.

We were sent to Vietnam to kill Communism. But we found instead that we were killing women and children.

Our troops are terrorizing women and children in the dark of night in Iraq.

Many entire nations are marginalised by the more powerful nations. That is causing imbalance, violence and terror. Women must do their best to introduce another perspective.

There's just so much lazy violence directed at women. But beyond that, lazy violence directed at humans generally. Just lazy violence.

I've pushed several women in front of violent situations. My rule is save myself first.

Pregnant women are more likely to die from homicide by domestic violence than any other cause of death.

Women are secretaries of state and prime ministers - but people still don't expect women to be involved in violence.

When the bombers are women - and children, which I predict we'll see more of - the terrorists get more bang for their buck, because there's more media attention.

Aren't we living in a world where heedless men only desire decapitated women?

People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women and the cunning men, the unfortunate, the lost and the strange

We're seeing that women continue to make less money, they continue to face violence.

I do not believe that the majority of men in the world would like to hurt women, but they can be very complacent, and that is just as bad.

Terrorism grows when there are no other options, and when the center of the global economy is the god of money and not the person - men and women - this is already the first terrorism!