Quotes About Violence

Violence is a common part of far too many women's lives.

There is female-on-male spouse abuse. There are women who hit their husbands. But there must have been something that caused that because otherwise it wouldn't have happened.

Workers are actually being starved on the largest military base in Baghdad, and women are being raped with impunity - and because it doesn't fit into a Hollywood context it's not going to fly.

Rapists who might've been convicted were free to assault other women.

Whoever said men hit harder when women are around, is right. Word for word, we beat the love out of each other.

On the 25th anniversary of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, let us remember that we have a chance to save lives! If we don't take it, we may regret it!

I'm getting the impression that women, in any form, scare you."He shrugged. "They're the more violent species. And unpredictable. I'd rather take on a wild boar. You can't shoot women.

The violence between women is unbelievable...women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

I do not take orders from women.""My men do not have a similar problem." Lada lifted a hand. The man fell, a crossbow bolt sticking out of his chest.

Terrorism has nothing to do with religion, Islam or otherwise. Terrorism is born of fundamentalism not of religion.

Threatening a current or former partner isn't passion, or love, or heartache. It's violence, it's abuse and it's a crime.

Virulent anti-Semitism is, of course, a staple of militant Islamist ideology.

Staring down the barrel of a gun is the scariest thing you could ever experience. It's not funny. It's not for the movies.

To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child, to deal with the initial responsibility you have not to do that and the knowledge you did do it, can be incredibly hard.

There was a long period where every time someone was shot or stabbed the BBC would call me. I started to think, 'I'm an actor and a musician, I don't want to be a politician or a spokesperson.'

For many child soldiers, war and violence are all they have ever known. If we don't take it upon ourselves to show them an alternative, then they're going to be soldiers forever, and they'll continue to be recruited and to participate in violence if another conflict starts five or 10 years down the road.

You know what my grandmother said, eventually: 'When a man beats you, he doesn't like you. He has women issues and it starts probably with their mothers.' And I said 'You're probably right.'

The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.

Certainly, the murder of civilians for political statement did not just begin on September 11, 2001.

Why do we need another station where everyone has a gun? We already have BET.

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.

I stayed because it was normal. After the first hit, you don't think they're going to do it again. And it does escalate, but I stayed because it became normal. I didn't call the police because I didn't want them to go to jail and it just was normal.

We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.