Barriers Quote by Edmund Leach

“Violence is already active here; it is built into the very structure od the existing society. If we seek a world in which men…

— Barbara Deming

“There are very subtle shades of violence, I can assure you. A civilization that renounces the possibility of resorting to violence in thought or…

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

I do not like violence, but ours is a violent time, and there are some men who understand nothing else.

— Louis L'Amour

There is a direct connection between violence against the Earth and violence against women.

— Lee Maracle

We all have violence inside of us, but we try to channel it into what we do.

— Max Cavalera

The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it…

— Gloria Steinem

How our availability, our showing up, our presence, leaves us open to that violence. I think it's a question of language, as it arrives…

— Claudia Rankine

“violence doesn't stop merely by saying, 'we'll act based on love', because that can become just an idea that gets absorbed into the system.”

— David Bohm

I think, personally, nothing comes from violence other than more violence.

— Christopher Priest

I've never seen a world where only men were responsible for the violence, and the women were innocent. They go together. Men and women…

— Claire Denis

Yet the basic fact remains: we live in a world marked by violence, and if we want to protect others, we sometimes have to…

— Eric Greitens

...In every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.

— Andrea Dworkin