The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized.
Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
We stand for law and order, so we will not allow the scourge of violence to infect our communities.
Random violence is incredibly infectious.
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know what's causing violence in America - the damn drug laws.
I don't initiate violence, I retaliate.
The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents.
The function of combat is not merely to perpetrate violence, but to perpetrate violence on command, instantaneously and reflexively. The function of the service academies is to prepare men for leadership positions where they may someday exercise that command.
I'm not affected by violence the way some people are. I don't know why, but I enjoy that intensity.
As women, we have to deal with constant threats of violence. And it's in our media and fiction, too. So we internalize it.
Once the violence has ceased, the US should immediately call on the World Bank and other international institutions to convene a donors conference to rebuild Lebanon's shattered infrastructure.
Needless to say, if the Arab-Israeli conflict is about interstate disputes and the need to resolve the future of the West Bank and Gaza, it can be solved; if it is a religious conflict, nothing but violence is ahead.
It angers me to see armed defenders at the bottom of Lost Cause statues, adding a renewed threat of violence to icons that are themselves part of an ideology of violence and intimidation.
Intimidation, harassment and violence have no place in a democracy.
I think people are getting more and more - unfortunately - inured to violence. People are like, less sensitive to things they should wake up about.
The highest religious and spiritual ideals of any faith would invite us to a compassion for all lives destroyed by the violence that plagues us.
Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus.
