Domestic Violence famous quotes

As the duties of superintending the national defense and of securing the public peace against foreign or domestic violence involve a provision for casualties and dangers to which no possible limits can be assigned, the power of making that provision ought to know no other bounds than the exigencies of the nation and the resources of the community.
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Community #Domestic Violence #Defense

If anyone hits me, they can expect to be hit back, and harder. I never turn the other cheek because in my experience that doesn't work.
-- Alice Bag

#Domestic Violence #Turn The Other Cheek #Harder

It's so important to raise awareness of this problem that continues to affect 1 in 4 women at some point in their lifetime, regardless of career, wealth or background.
-- Anna Friel

#Careers #Domestic Violence #Important

These women need to feel that we're all aware of what they may be going through, to give them the confidence to speak out.
-- Anna Friel

#Giving #Domestic Violence #Needs

When food becomes scarce, refugees often turn to desperate measures to feed themselves and their families. We are particularly worried about the health of the refugee population, domestic violence and refugees resorting to illegal employment or even to prostitution, just to put enough food on the table.
-- Antonio Guterres

#Worry #Domestic Violence #Population

Nowhere in the world is a woman safe from violence. The strengthening of global commitment to counteract this plague is a movement whose time has come.
-- Asha-Rose Migiro

#Commitment #Domestic Violence #Movement

Emotional abuse is like being continuously kicked in the shins. It can be worse than getting one punch in the face, and it cements itself.
-- Ashley Banjo

#Emotional #Abuse #Domestic Violence

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

#Country #Community #Domestic Violence

The Violence Against Women Act protects the lives of tens of thousands of domestic violence victims. But the U.S. must also support gender equality around the world, and that means acknowledging that some nations we consider to be our friends are no friends to women.
-- Barbara Boxer

#Mean #Support #Domestic Violence

Emotional abuse is any type of abuse that is not physical in nature. It can include everything from verbal abuse to the silent treatment, domination to subtle manipulation.
-- Beverly Engel

#Emotional #Abuse #Domestic Violence

Victims of domestic violence need assistance and deserve justice, I commend the crime unit's efforts to put offenders behind bars and reach out to victims.
-- Bob Riley

#Justice #Effort #Domestic Violence

I am a survivor of domestic violence,
-- Brooke Axtell

#Domestic Violence #Survivor #Violence

The very definition of news is something that hardly ever happens. If an incident is in the news, we shouldn't worry about it. It's when something is so common that its no longer news - car crashes, domestic violence - that we should worry.
-- Bruce Schneier

#Worry #Car #Domestic Violence

Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.
-- Candice Bergen

#Men #Independence #Domestic Violence

We can all take responsibility for helping to bring about change, and keeping our friends and colleagues safe from domestic violence
-- Charles Clarke

#Responsibility #Domestic Violence #Safe

I think we're at a time where people just want to join together and cause change. People don't want to live like this any more.
-- Charlize Theron

#Thinking #People #Domestic Violence

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.
-- Charlotte Bunch

#Domestic Violence #Culture #Discrimination

It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is of far less importance to the outcome than the passion generated in the attacker. The man who has lost control will cause serious injuries in many cases, quite irrespective of the weapon he uses and regardless of the certainty of detections and punishment.
-- Colin Greenwood

#Passion #Men #Domestic Violence

Growing up, I thought my grandfather was dead. Later, I learned he was alive, but my family pretended he didn't exist because of the terrible way he'd abused my grandmother and my mother. He did things like shave my grandmother's head and lock her in a closet. With my mother's help, my grandmother finally left him.
-- Deborah Pryce

#Mother #Growing Up #Domestic Violence

Women initiate most domestic violence, yet out of a thousand cases of domestic violence, maybe one is involving a man. And this has made a victim of culture out of women.
-- Dov Charney

#Men #Domestic Violence #Culture

The rule of thumb is that if someone is able to be verbally or physically abusive, he or she is able to understand that the behavior is wrong.
-- Edward T Welch

#Domestic Violence #Thumbs #Able

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.
-- Eric Idle

#Domestic Violence #May #Stones

It's a subject that is often hidden and very secretive, but it's something which I feel should have a light shone upon it.
-- Fern Britton

#Light #Domestic Violence #Should

I spend my time on Crimewatch appealing for criminals on the run. Domestic violence is one of the few crimes I can think of where the victim is often forced to go on the run.
-- Fiona Bruce

#Running #Thinking #Domestic Violence

Domestic violence and sexual assault go hand in hand.
-- Georgia Taylor

#Hands #Domestic Violence #Violence

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

#Niece #Animal #Domestic Violence

The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent.
-- James T. Walsh

#Children #Abuse #Domestic Violence

... you don't have to wait for someone to treat you bad repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it that once, if they know they can treat you like that, then it sets the pattern for the future.
-- Jane Green

#Waiting #Abuse #Domestic Violence

There were no hundreds and hundreds of cases of domestic violence. I would have no knowledge of that or have any idea how I would authenticate that. That was never the intent of the writer's conversation with me.
-- Jerry Angelo

#Ideas #Domestic Violence #Conversation

The Violence Against Women Act has been a true bipartisan success story since it was first enacted in 1994. In my home state of Texas alone, its programs have helped hundreds of thousands of victims to break free from the terrible cycle of domestic violence.
-- John Cornyn

#Home #Texas #Domestic Violence

It is difficult to get Latina and Asian women to speak out. We must make it clear it's not their problem, it's our problem. We need magazines like this one to keep talking about the issue. And know that we women in Congress are with you 100 percent.
-- Juanita Millender-McDonald

#Talking #Issues #Domestic Violence

Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself- your strengths and your limitations -in contrast to depending on affirmation from others.
-- Judith M Bardwick

#Real #Knowing #Domestic Violence

The time when domestic violence is the most lethal is when the person is trying to leave the situation.
-- Julie Johnston

#Domestic Violence #Trying #Situation

Believe in yourself and be proud of who you are. Don't let anyone tell you differently. There is beauty in everyone and no one should stop you from growing into a confident and strong young person.
-- June Sarpong

#Strong #Believe #Domestic Violence

Women trapped in violent relationships need to know that there's no shame in talking out and walking out on their abusive partners.
-- Kate Thornton

#Talking #Domestic Violence #Needs

Many survivors insist they're not courageous: 'If I were courageous I would have stopped the abuse.' 'If I were courageous, I wouldn't be scared'...Most of us have it mixed up. You don't start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear.
-- Laura Davies

#Abuse #Domestic Violence #Survivor

[Domestic violence is] a carefully laid physical, financial and psychological trap.
-- Leslie Morgan Steiner

#Motivation #Inspiration #Domestic Violence

It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is: kill her.
-- Leslie Morgan Steiner

#Motivation #Inspiration #Domestic Violence

I did not know that the first step in any domestic violence relationship is to seduce and charm the victim. I also did not know that the second step is to isolate the victim. The next step in the domestic violence pattern is to introduce the threat of violence and see how she reacts. We victims know something you [non-victims] usually don't. It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is to 'kill her'. Over 70% of domestic violence murders happens after the victim has ended the relationship.
-- Leslie Morgan Steiner

#Domestic Violence #Next Steps #Finals

...those serpents! There's no pleasing them!
-- Lewis Carroll

#Domestic Violence #Violence #Serpent

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

#Domestic Violence #Causes #Pregnant Women

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
-- Lord Chesterfield

#Trust #Domestic Violence #Comeback

Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12.
-- Lucille Roybal-Allard

#Children #Domestic Violence #Age

To help break the cycle of domestic violence, we must allow survivors to take time off from work without fear of losing their job, to go to court, to see a doctor or to find a safe place to live.
-- Lucille Roybal-Allard

#Jobs #Doctors #Domestic Violence

I will also continue to fight to provide better economic security for victims of domestic violence.
-- Lucille Roybal-Allard

#Fighting #Domestic Violence #Economic

I represent an affluent district, but when I worked to form my county's first battered-women's shelter, some nights there were no beds left. Violence against women crosses all economic lines.
-- Lynn Woolsey

#Night #Domestic Violence #Bed

I lived in Complexo do Alemao until I was 12, dealt with domestic violence in my childhood and faced difficulties in life.
-- Maria das Gracas Silva Foster

#Childhood #Domestic Violence #Violence

Sexual assault and domestic violence are difficult things to talk about. Talk about them anyway.
-- Mariska Hargitay

#Domestic Violence #Violence #Assault

It's still hard for me to talk about the day I visited a shelter for children who were victims of a domestic-violence household. The kinds of abuse they had suffered, and what it had done to them physically and emotionally ?- I don't have words for what I saw. This has to stop.
-- Michael Dean Crapo

#Children #Domestic Violence #Abuse

There are many women in their late teens and early twenties who have either experienced violence in a relationship or have witnessed it at home in their childhood.
-- Miquita Oliver

#Home #Childhood #Domestic Violence

The Hideout is here to help you get through today and tomorrow. Be brave. It's not your fault. Remember, the road will get smoother and there is always hope that tomorrow will be better.
-- Naomi Wilkinson

#Brave #Domestic Violence #Today

Hey ladies, I'm willing to do my part to end domestic violence by posting a selfie online. Some might call me a hero
-- Nev Schulman

#Hero #Domestic Violence #Hey

...after all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood?
-- Nicole Krauss

#Childhood #Domestic Violence #Wrecks

So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.
-- Pamela Stephenson

#People #Domestic Violence #Suffering

A recent government survey found that 47 percent of all women report being the victims of either physical, emotional, sexual or economic violence. But 84 percent of those who are victims of domestic violence remain silent.
-- Patricia Espinosa

#Emotional #Government #Domestic Violence

There's no such thing as "just a domestic".
-- Patrick Stewart

#Domestic Violence #Violence

Domestic violence is the front line of the war against women.
-- Pearl Cleage

#War #Domestic Violence #Lines

When you're trapped in an abusive home environment you can feel completely hopeless and lost. Remember that situations can change with time, and that it won't be this way forever.
-- Reggie Yates

#Home #Forever #Domestic Violence

All marriages are sacred, but not all are safe.
-- Rob Jackson

#Domestic Violence #Sacred #Violence

The more that we choose not to talk about domestic violence, the more we shy away from the issue, the more we lose.
-- Russell Wilson

#Issues #Domestic Violence #Violence

No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.
-- Salma Hayek

#Abuse #Domestic Violence #Victim

This is not love. It is a crime... You can't look the other way just because you have not experienced domestic violence with your own flesh.
-- Salma Hayek

#Domestic Violence #Abuse #Flesh

Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar.
-- Samuel Griswold Goodrich

#Abuse #Domestic Violence #Weapons

The effects of abuse are devastating and far-reaching. Domestic violence speaks many languages, has many colours and lives in many different communities.
-- Sandra Pupatello

#Community #Abuse #Domestic Violence

Unfortunately, many children throughout the UK witness violence in the family home. Let's stand up for those children. Domestic violence needs to stop.
-- Shaun Wright-Phillips

#Children #Home #Domestic Violence

Often things are as bad as they seem.
-- Sheldon B. Kopp

#Domestic Violence #Violence

One of the most basic things we can do is let the men in our lives know it's not okay to mistreat a woman.
-- Tim McGraw

#Men #Domestic Violence #He Man

I was shocked to find out that 1 in 4 women are affected by domestic violence at some point in their lifetime. So many women never tell anyone that they are being abused by their partner. I have joined the 'Real Man' Women's Aid campaign to show that real men don't abuse women and that a real man will always stand up against domestic violence.
-- Ugo Monye

#Real #Men #Domestic Violence

The best protection against rape, stalking, and domestic violence is to raise men who both understand that women are different, and would never dare take advantage of this difference.
-- Wendy Shalit

#Men #Differences #Domestic Violence

Domestic violence isn't funny, especially if you live together.
-- Dov Davidoff

#Domestic Violence #Together #Violence

I don't know how I can feel safe with Donald Trump, who bragged about sexual assault having the most power of anyone in America, maybe the world. What does that say to every child, to every person who has been sexually assaulted, to every person in a domestic-violence situation, to anybody who has to report that kind of crime?
-- Jennifer Pozner

#Children #America #Domestic Violence

A lot of people think that domestic violence is if someone hits, kicks, [or] punches you.
-- Robin McGraw

#Thinking #People #Domestic Violence

I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.
-- Tatum O'Neal

#Abuse #Domestic Violence #Overcoming

Domestic violence refers to acts of violence (physical, sexual, emotional and psychological) that occur between people who have, or have had, an intimate relationship. It tends to involve an ongoing pattern of behaviour aimed at controlling a partner through fear.
-- Unknown

#Emotional #People #Domestic Violence

My mother and I are big domestic violence advocates.
-- Brandon Marshall

#Mother #Domestic Violence #Violence

This is about saving children's lives. It is not about agencies and services protecting themselves.
-- Rosie Batty

#Children #Agency #Domestic Violence

Children have very little voice, and the coroner's inquest is about Luke's voice, and making sure Luke is heard and respected and honoured. I don't want him to have died in vain.
-- Rosie Batty

#Children #Voice #Domestic Violence

I never want anyone to be sitting where I'm sitting and to have lost their son, because I can never get Luke back.
-- Rosie Batty

#Son #Domestic Violence #Sitting

What we want is to make sure that people don't go through what I'm going through ... and we have to understand that even since Luke's death, children have been killed.
-- Rosie Batty

#Children #People #Domestic Violence