Habits Quote by Maggie James

“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

“Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It’s attractive because it’s simple, it’s direct, it’s almost always available as…

— Corey, James S. A

“Violence was just another function of the body, no less unusual than sweating or vomiting. It sat on the same shelf as sexual intercourse.…

— Ottessa Moshfegh

“The cycle of violence needs extreme love to break it.”

— Sarah Macdonald

“Violence has to become a part of your thinking. It makes you cautious, suspicious as hell, and lengthens your life expectancy.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“I head someone say once that passionate people live violent lives. At the time I didn't really get it but if what they meant…

— Jay Kopelman

“At a time in our culture when violence was achieving a new legitimacy as a form of public assertion, there was perhaps a special…

— Diana Trilling

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

— Andrea Dworkin

Abuse directed at women is always sexual or violent.

— Louise Mensch

“Violence is there because you have not grown your potential for love; it is the absence of love.”

— Osho

“We're all violent. Especially when it concerns the ones we love. They're intimately connected, love and hate.”

— Tess Gerritsen

“You don't get to do this when you're a girl, so when the opportunity for violence finally presents itself, I want all of it…

— Courtney Summers