Top 1200 Violence Against Women Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

It seems to me that violence against women has been tolerated for so long that the world has become numb to it.

Unless men are active allies, we'll never end violence against women and girls.

Society's preservation against the unlimited violence of scandals lies in the mimetic coalition against the single victim and its ensuing limited violence. The violent death of Jesus is, humanly speaking, an example of this strange process.

Women and girls, men and boys all share the right to live free of violence, which is, unfortunately, experienced by both men and women. Women and girls, however, disproportionately experience violence due to a deeply rooted global culture of gender discrimination.

It's a bad thing that happens to women, but when you look at that term 'violence against women,' nobody is doing it to them. It just happens to them. Men aren't even a part of it.

Police violence against black women is very real.

Domestic violence can be so easy for people to ignore, as it often happens without any witnesses and it is sometimes easier not to get involved. Yet, by publicly speaking out against domestic violence, together we can challenge attitudes towards violence in the home and show that domestic violence is a crime and not merely unacceptable.

Violence against women can end only when the culprits get punished.

I firmly believe today that the only way to stop violence against women is to speak out and refused to be silenced.

How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.

I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.

I'm especially interested in helping to give visibility to the pandemic of violence against women

Violence against women is an everyday reality, act now, always, and forever before its too late.

Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations.

Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.

It was a step forward to charge Pinochet with terrorism, and to acknowledge that the essence of the crime is the use of political violence to induce great fear in society and against those who are innocent, and not just such violence that is directed against the state by opposition groups.

The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father's role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts--a child--as a competitor, an intrusion and an inconvenience.. .

Is there discrimination against women? Yes, like the old boys' network. And sometimes discrimination against women becomes discrimination against men: in hazardous fields, women suffer fewer hazards.

As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.

Behind every person who’s committed an unimaginable crime is an adult who committed unimaginable violence against them as a child. All of them, as if it was plotted that way. Violence begets violence, and that violence begets even more violence.

Professional fights between men and women send the message that violence between men and women is appropriate. In most homes, that's not a fair fight, which is why I'm against intergender boxing.

Violence against women in this country is not levied against just Democrats, but Republicans as well... not just rich people or poor people. It knows no gender, it knows no ethnicity, it knows nothing.

Violence against women is clearly not solved, not at all solved, and the reasons for it, which are controlling women's bodies in order to control reproduction, are definitely not solved.

The work that I've been trying to do with violence against women and children comes from seeing quite a bit of violence. I just think it's important that we try to help the young boys who are watching the fathers do it - because if it's OK for the fathers to do it, then these young boys are watching their dads and going, well, nothing's happening to them, so maybe this is OK. But actually, this violence needs to stop in the sandpits.

As an actor you're only as good as the things you're offered. And there just weren't any female directors offering me things. So when you dissect that, you realize there aren't women offering you things because they don't have the opportunities. I work to raise money for women's cancers; I use my voice for violence against women.

I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.

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

I personally believe that violence against women in our society is not going anywhere.

Show me pornography which promotes violence against women, and I'll buy it.

We need to change attitudes. We can only change attitudes by working together. Government will do its bit, but I want you all to do your bit, too. So speak out, stand up against violence against women and girls, and that's the way we can eradicate it.

I am delighted to be part of this Women's Aid campaign - the statistics are frightening. I've spent time with the victims of these cowardly acts, and it's heartbreaking. Everyday women and children are being abused in their own homes. I am standing up and saying that I am a Real Man, and that violence against women and children has to end.

The Centers for Disease Control says that men's violence against women is at epidemic proportions.

While religious fundamentalism is treated as a serious social problem because it has the potential to lead to rare but devastating acts of terrorism against the public, with a variety of programmes and interventions to address it, everyday violence against women occurring in the name of fundamentalism has long been neglected.

Violence against women and girls is one of the most systematic and widespread human rights violations.

Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.

We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.

We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological issue.

Let's empower men and help them take a stand to stop acts of violence against women.

I would never condone violence against women in any form, and for all of those I offended, I am sincerely sorry.

Hillary Clinton has a strong and powerful voice regarding ending violence against women and girls.

India is one of those few countries in the world where violence against women starts in the womb, before the girl is even born.

Together we can change our culture for the better by ending violence against women and girls, artists have a unique power to change minds and attitudes and get us thinking and talking about what matters, and all of us, in our lives, have the power to set an example. Join our campaign to stop this violence.

The White Ribbon Foundation is organization I support. They're bringing awareness of violence against women and I think it's important in our society.

I'm not someone who ever enjoys violence against women or children.

I have always believed that resistance against repression and violence is possible without relying on similar repression and violence. I have always believed that human civilization is the fruit of the effort of both women and men.

I wanted to take part in the Women's Aid Real Man campaign because domestic violence affects so many women and children during their lifetime and I think it is important to stand up against what is often a hidden crime.

Violence against even one human being is violence against all.

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.

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.

We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women.

Violence against women and children resembles an epidemic. It has spread through society, sparing no social group or class.

The Violence Against Women Act is personal to me because I know the programs and services it funds are lifesaving.

Unfortunately, the belief that women are a minority is endemic in most cultures around the world. Obviously some take it to the extreme where violence against women is legal and supported and in other cultures it is more subversive and easy to dismiss as "progress."

I feel like acts of violence against women are detestable, and they need to be dealt with, and they are important.

I have never seen a connection between cinematic violence towards women and actual violence towards women in society.

Domestic violence is the front line of the war against women.

I am against war, against violence, against violent revolution, for peaceful settlement of differences, for nonviolent but nevertheless radical changes. Change is needed, and violence will not really change anything: at most it will only transfer power from one set of bull-headed authorities to another.

When people were very concerned about the violence against women, I encouraged people to stick with it because it was going somewhere and there was a reason why. It's all a commentary on gender roles and women and having to be the damsel or to stay on the ranch or to stay at home.

Violence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation.

The devastation of neoliberalism is so multi-fold, whether it's violence against women or desperate economic inequality or the destruction of the planet.