• The roots of violence are:
  ⚑ Wealth without work,
  ⚑ Pleasure without conscience,
  ⚑ Knowledge without character,
  ⚑ Commerce without morality,
  ⚑ Science without humanity,
  ⚑ Worship without sacrifice,
  ⚑ Politics without principles.

• The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women. […]
  There is no chance for the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved. […]
  Woman has suffered for aeons, and that has given her infinite patience and infinite preserverance. Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) Indian Hindu saint, monk, scholar, The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, volume 4, S. 176, 1863-1902

• Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality. Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of depth psychology, author, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
  Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-born US American theoretical physicist, developer of the theory of general relativity, Nobel laureate in physics, 1921, letter to Morris Raphael Cohen, professor emeritus of philosophy at the College of the City of New York, defending the appointment of Bertrand Russell to a teaching position, 19. March 1940

Organized nonviolent resistance

• Organized nonviolent resistance is the most powerful weapon that oppressed people can use in breaking aloose from the bondage of oppression. Video TV interview with Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) US American Baptist minister, activist, leader of the African American civil rights movement, Dr. King: Nonviolence is the Most Powerful Weapon, presented by the US Ame-
  rican commercial broadcast television network NBC, weekly television program "Look Here", host Martin Agronsky, Montgomery, Alabama, aired 27. October 1957, YouTube film, minute 2:41, 8:13 minutes duration, posted 3. April 2008

St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of
French Protestants, 1572
François Dubois (1529-1584) French Huguenot painter

• The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes.
  Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction. [...] The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) US American Baptist minister, activist, leader of the African American civil rights movement, collection of sermons Strength To Love, 1963

• Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones. Violence is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding: it seeks to annihilate rather than convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survi-
  vors and brutality in the destroyers.
  Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) US American Baptist minister, activist, leader of the African American civil rights movement, Nobel Lecture, 11. December 1964

• The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
  Last speech delivered by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) US American Baptist minister, activist, leader of the African American civil rights movement, I've Been to the Mountaintop, Mason Temple, Memphis, Tennessee, 3. April 1968

• We all have the potential to be killers. We found that the people who are the most violent are those who are inca-
  pable of embracing their own potential for evil. By projecting their shadow, their evil, onto the other, they justify their violence. They think they're emphasizing their purity, or restoring their purity, by destroying someone else.
  Article by Robert Thurman, Ph.D. (*1941) US American college professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies, Columbia University, president of the US Tibet House, theologian, philosopher, educator, civil rights leader, author, named among the 25 most influential people by TIME in 1997, Rising to the Challenge: Cool Heroism, presented by the US American quarterly magazine Tricycle.
  The Buddhist Review, spring 2003

• It has been said that the great malady of the twentieth century, implicated in all of our troubles and affecting us individually and socially, is "loss of soul." When soul is neglected, it doesn’t just go away; it appears symptomatically in obsessions, addictions, violence and loss of meaning.
  Thomas Moore, Ph.D. (*1940) US American professor of religious studies, Catholic monk, psychotherapist, musician, writer, Care of the Soul. An Inspirational Programme to Add Depth and Meaning
  to Your Everyday Life, S. xi, Harper Collins, 1992, Piatkus Books, 2012

• The Christian who slays the unbeliever in the Holy War is sure of his reward, the more sure if he himself is slain. The Christian glories in the death of the pagan, because Christ is thereby glorified. St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) French abbot, primary builder of the reforming Cistercian order, letter to the Templars, preaching on the merits and necessity of the Second Crusade, Vézelay, France, 31. March 1146

• They [murderous prisoners] would all say that they themselves had died before they started killing other people […]. They felt dead inside. They had no capacity for feelings. No emotional feelings. Or even physical feelings.
  Universal among the violent criminals was the fact that they were keeping a secret. A central secret. And that secret was that they felt ashamed – deeply ashamed, chronically ashamed, acutely ashamed. It was shame, every time. I have yet to see a serious act of violence that was not provoked by the experience of feeling shamed or humiliated, disrespected and ridiculed. As children, these men were shot, axed, scalded, beaten, strangled, tortured, drugged, starved, suffocated, set on fire, thrown out of the window, raped, or prostituted by mothers who were their pimps. For others, words alone shamed and rejected, insulted and humiliated, dishonored and disgraced, tore down their self-esteem, and murdered their soul. For each of them, the shaming occurred on a scale so extreme, so bizarre, and so frequent that one cannot fail to see that the men who occupy the extreme end of the continuum of violent behavior in adulthood occupied an equally extreme end of the continuum of violent child abuse earlier in life.
  James Gilligan, Ph.D., US American psychiatrist, violence expert, author, cited in: Jon Ronson (*1967) British documentary filmmaker, screenwriter, radio presenter, journalist, author, So You've Been Publicly Shamed, S. 237, Riverhead Books (US),
  31. March 2015; Pan Macmillan (UK), 3. September 2015

• There is no human being that cannot be reached. [Violent criminals are] "love-starved."
  Without love, the soul cannot survive. It dies. That's what these men [violent crimi-
  nals] were telling me. Their souls had died. That's why they were capable of killing other people. [...] I have seen the most violent people we have. When I first started out with many of them, I thought they were hopeless. I thought there was nothing we could do. They were untreatable, incurable. [...] I was wrong. I've known some of these men for 25 or 30 years now, people who were off the scale, who were mute, paranoid, multiple murderers, who'd been killing people even after they got into prison or jail – we were able to work with [them], and turn [them] around, so that they haven't harmed a hair on anybody's head for the last 25 years, and in fact are engaged in constructive work. Interview with James Gilligan, Ph.D., US American psychiatrist, violence expert, author, A New Approach to Violence Treatment, presented by the psychology channel PsychAlive, undated

• The first lesson that tragedy teaches (and that morality plays miss) is that all violence is an attempt to achieve justice, or what the violent person perceives as justice, for himself or for whomever it is on whose behalf he is being violent [...] Thus, the attempt to achieve and maintain justice, or to undo or prevent injustice, is the one and only uni-
  versal cause of violence. James Gilligan, Ph.D., US American psychiatrist, former director of the Center for the Study of Vio-
  lence, Harvard Medical School, author, Violence. Reflections on a National Epidemic, Vintage, 1st edition 29. April 1997

• Objectification is a critical reason why an abuser tends to get worse over time. As his conscience adapts to one
  level of cruelty – or violence – he builds to the next. By depersonalizing his partner, the abuser protects himself from
  the natural human emotions of guilt and empathy, so that he can sleep at night with a clear conscience. He distances himself so far from her humanity that her feelings no longer count, or simply cease to exist.
  Lundy Bancroft, US American consultant on domestic abuse and child maltreatment, workshop leader, author, Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men, Berkley Books, reprint edition 2. September 2003

• Bullies use violence in three ways. They use
  ➢ political violence to intimitate
  ➢ physical violence to terrorize, and
  ➢ mental or emotional violence to undermine.
  And only very rarely in very few cases does it work to use more violence.
  Video presentation by Scilla Elworthy (*1943) Scottish peace builder, founder of the NGO Oxford Research Group for effective dialogue between nuclear weapons policy-makers worldwide and their critics, 1982, executive director of the ORG (1982-2003), member of the World Future Council, Fighting with non-violence, presented by TEDx Exeter Talks, Exeter, Devon, England, minute 2:20, 15:48 minutes duration, filmed April 2012, posted August 2012

• Sweden made purchasing sex [by men] a crime and then they enforced it together with extending some help, yet not enough, to those [women] who want to leave [prostitution]. Eliminating her criminality raises her status and penalizing him [the buyer as well as third party profiteers] lowers his privilege. Now Sweden arrests or surveils buyers [of prostitution]. And the results have been cutting street prostitution in half or more and they have the lowest trafficking rate in Europe. The stigma of prostitution may be shifting to the John. […] That [sex equality law] is the only legal approach to prostitution that has ever even partly worked in the history of the world. In contrast, when prostitution is legalized, trafficking goes through the roof. And illegal prostitution [for a range of reasons] escalates dramatically. […] Legalized prostitution [as introduced in Ger-
  many in 2002] is a failed experiment. Visiting lecture to University of Chicago Law School by Catharine MacKinnon, Ph.D.,
  US American professor of law, University of Michigan, feminist, author, Trafficking, Prostitution and Inequality: A Public Lecture by Catharine MacKinnon, YouTube film, minute 1:02:06, 1:27:34 duration, posted 14. December 2011

• Question: Why is there so much physical, emotional and sexual violence against women or children?
  Answer: Women create. Women create life. And if you can affect the energy of the Divine Feminine then you can fracture that beauty. That is why these evil people have violence towards females because they are fearful of the Divine energy.
  Lots of males who abuse women would laugh about that, but the reality is that when men are violent of any sort against the female it's because they have lost the argument. It's because they are scared and they can't say that at the Divine Feminine.
  Violence against children is because children are seen as pure and uncorrupted. And if you can corrupt something that is pure then if you're in a Satanic organization you get points for corrupting X, Y and Z.
  The 3D take is that women and children are weaker. So evil men will bully or oppress that which is weaker. And that works as well.
  Women have been attacked by the church. The Catholic Church in particular didn’t want women anywhere near churches and organizations. […]
  The command and control systems on the plante have consistently tried to push women into subservient roles. […]
  Why would they not let a women vote? Is it because they were not as intelligent as men? Or is it because they were
  more intelligent than men and therefore they were harder to manipulate?
  That is how Satanic energies work. It's always women and always children they would attack.
  And it's evil and it's wrong and it has to stop.
  Audio interview with Simon Parkes (*1960) British councillor, Illuminati insider, mind control experiencer, activist, counselor, 2016-07-03 Simon Parkes Connecting Consciousness, presented by the dissolved Scottish media network Wolf Spirit Radio, program "Connecting Consciousness", host Jay Pee, minute 1:18:13, 1:58:35 duration, recorded and aired 3. July 2016

• [Status 2016] Today [sex] trafficking [of women and children] has become the number 1 crime far exceeding drug trafficking and weapons trafficking.
  Video TV interview with Conchita Sarnoff, US American executive director at The Alliance to Rescue Victims of Trafficking, commentator, editor, investigative journalist, Pedophile Empire Exposed, presented by the deplatformed The Alex Jones Show InfoWars.com, host Jakari Jackson, deleted YouTube film, minute 15:11, 20:16 minutes duration, posted 20. May 2016

• We have been wedded to a false story of human nature. And it's a falsely gendered story. It's a wrong story about men, and boys, it's a wrong story about girls and women. And if you think about it for one nanosecond, you know it's wrong. Because to say that men think and women feel – in other words that men don’t feel and women don't think, or that men have selves, and women have relationships. […] Because if you don't have a self, then who is in relationship? Or that our minds are separated from our bodies. In other words it's something that's so obviously wrong as a description of human experience, that the interesting question is: How come people keep talking about it?
  Video presentation by / Q&A with Carol Gilligan, Ph.D. (*1936) US American professor of gender studies, psychologist, feminist, ethicist (community, relationships), writer, Learning to See in the Dark: The Roots of Ethical Resistance, sponsored by The Dalai Lama Center For Ethics and Transformative Values MIT World, minute 28:14, 1:10:34 duration, recorded 24. April 2009, uploaded 23. December 2011

• Violence occurs when women's voices are silent or silenced. […] Girl's voices and women's voices will give words to something that is felt deeply also by men but often not in language. And when women's voices drop out of the conversation this awareness and this knowledge tends to drop out with it.
  Video presentation by / Q&A with Carol Gilligan, Ph.D. (*1936) US American professor of gender studies, psychologist, feminist, ethicist (community, relationships), writer, Learning to See in the Dark: The Roots of Ethical Resistance, sponsored by The Dalai Lama Center For Ethics and Transformative Values MIT World, minute 46:45, 1:10:34 duration, recorded 24. April 2009, uploaded 23. December 2011

• The downturn of violent crime in the U.S. in the 1990s is very deceptive. Violent crime is still about five times greater today, per capita, than it was in 1957. The biggest factor for the lower crime rates is that we are lying about
  the data. Dave Grossman (*1956) US American West Point professor of military science, Arkansas State University, retired lieu-
  tenant colonel, US Army, killologist, author specialized in the study of the psychology of killing, Gloria Degaetano (coauthor), Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill. A Call to Action Against TV, Movie and Video Game Violence, Harmony, 1st edition 5. October 1999

• Abuse thrives only in [pathological, fear-driven] silence. Video presentation by Leslie Morgan Steiner, US American advocate for survivors of domestic violence, author of the memoir "Crazy Love", Why domestic violence victims don't leave?, presented by TEDx Rainier Talks, 16:00 minutes duration, filmed November 2012, posted January 2013

• Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
  Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) French historian, political thinker, publicist, author, Democracy in America Volume I, 1835

• Force never disproves truth.
  Erich Fromm (1900-1980) German US American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, author, Man for Himself. An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics, S. 246, Routledge, 1947, Holt Paperbacks, 15. November 1990

• When it gets down to having to use violence, then you’re playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you, pull your beard, flick your face to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle in non-violence and humor. John Lennon John Lennon (1940-1980) English musician, singer-songwriter, founding member of the British music band The Beatles, Bed-In, Amsterdam Hilton Hotel, room 902, 25-31 March 1969

• [T]he very best predictor of how insecure and unstable a nation
  ➤ is not its level of democracy,
  ➤ it's not its level of wealth,
  ➤ it's not what ‘Huntington civilization’ it belongs to,
  ➤ but is in fact best predicted by the level of violence against women in the society.

• Violence is almost always the outgrowth of powerlessness not power. People become criminals when they experience powerlessness not power. Removed audio interview with Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, The Myth of Male Power, presented by the podcast platform Simon & Schuster Audio, host Tom Howard, deleted YouTube film, posted
  10. July 2008

• There is a vagina-brain connection. What happens to the vagina happens to the brain. [...] When you traumatize a woman's vagina [...] you are traumatizing her brain, even if there is no violence. [...] This new neuroscience shows
  that any rape which always involves fear is traumatic to a woman's brain and body for years.
  Video TV interview with Naomi Wolf (*1962) US American former political consultant, leading spokesperson of the third wave of the feminist movement, author, Jeremy Paxman debates Naomi Wolf on Rape and the Vagina, presented by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), host Jeremy Paxman (*1950) English broadcaster, journalist, author, YouTube film, minute 7:14, 8:44 minutes duration, posted 4. September 2012

• Science has established a deep audit evidence that there is no such thing as non-violent rape. Rape stays in the female brain, it stays in the female body in measurable ways that are very different from anything we have understood about sexual assault. […] The autonomic nervous systems of [sexually assaulted] women react differently with significant [bodily] measurable differences [...] to both exercise and erotic videos as opposed to the control group.
  Video presentation by Naomi Wolf (*1962) US American former political consultant, political activist, social critic, leading spokes-
  person of the third wave of the feminist movement, author, On "Vagina: A New Biography", sponsored by Intelligence Squared
  at Royal Institution of Great Britain, London, 6. September 2012, YouTube film, minute 24:27, 1:33:18 minutes duration, posted
  10. September 2012

• All the pornography in the world won't make a sex addict out of a person who isn't one. There is a biological predis-
  position to all addictions, and we need to educate people to the dangers. The brain must adjust to the possibilities that
  come with new technology. Helen Fisher, Ph.D. (*1945) Canadian-American research professor of biological anthropology and human behavior, Center for Human Evolutionary Studies, Rutgers University, expert on romantic interpersonal attraction, chief scientific adviser to Chemistry.com, author, cited in: In the Digital World, We're All Cavemen When It Comes to Love, presented by
  the US American magazine Wired, James Daly, August 2008

• Tech sometimes gives us far too many options. Consider online matchmaking. We know that the more you look and look and look for a partner the more likely it is that you'll end up with nobody.
  It's called cognitive overload. There is a natural human predisposition to keep looking – to find something better. And with so many alternatives and opportunities for better mates in the online world, it's easy to get into an addictive mode. But after you’ve met nine people stop the search. Get to know one of them. Helen Fisher, Ph.D. (*1945) Canadian-Ame-
  rican research professor of biological anthropology and human behavior, Center for Human Evolutionary Studies, Rutgers University,
  expert on romantic interpersonal attraction, chief scientific adviser to Chemistry.com, author, cited in: In the Digital World, We're All Cavemen When It Comes to Love, presented by the US American magazine Wired, James Daly, August 2008

• The figure given by Debbie Taylor³³ that today over 100 million young girls are "being raped by adult men – usually
  their fathers – often day after day, year in, year out" is staggering, but is dwarfed by the billions of children raped and otherwise sexually molested around the world over the past few centuries.
  Audiobook by Lloyd deMause psychohistory.com (1931-2020) US American social thinker, lay psychoanalyst, director of The
  Association for Psychohistory, president of the International Psychohistorical Association, editor of The Journal of Psychohistory,
  The Origins of War in Child Abuse, chapter 10 Patriarchal Families and National Wars, transcript, 21. November 2010, MP3, podcast, presented by the US American Freedomain Podcasts, A Voice for Men, narrated by founder and host Stefan Molyneux (*1966) Irish-born Canadian blogger / vlogger, podcaster on anarcho-capitalism, politics, secular ethics, atheism, right-libertarianism, cryptocurrencies, self-published author, 58:09 minutes duration, posted 3. September 2008, cited in: Naomi Wolf (*1962) US Ame-
  rican former political consultant to Bill Clinton and Al Gore, political activist, social critic, leading spokesperson of the third wave of the feminist movement, author, The Beauty Myth, William Morrow and Company, 1991

• Women aged 15 through 44 [worldwide] are more likely to be maimed or die from male violence than from cancer, malaria, traffic accidents, and war combined. Nicholas D. Kristof (*1959) US American journalist, The New York Times
  op-ed columnist, author, two-fold Pulitzer prize laureate, Sheryl WuDunn (*1959) US American business executive, philanthropy
  expert, lecturer, writer, Pulitzer Prize laureate, Half the Sky. Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, Alfred A.
  Knopf, 8. September 2009, Vintage, reprint edition 1. June 2010
  See also related book: "The Locust Effect. Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence", April 2009

• This dopamine effect explains why pornography tends to become more and more extreme over time: ordinary sexual images eventually lose their power, leading consumers to need images that break other taboos in other kinds of ways, in order to feel as good. Moreover, some men (and women) have a "dopamine hole" – their brains' reward systems are less efficient – making them more likely to become addicted to more extreme porn more easily.
  As with any addiction, it is very difficult, for neurochemical reasons, for an addict to stop doing things – even very self-destructive things – that enable him to get that next hit of dopamine. Naomi Wolf (*1962) US American former political consultant, leading spokesperson of the third wave of the feminist movement, author, Is pornography driving men crazy? Could the widespread availability and consumption of pornography in recent years actually be rewiring the male brain?, presented by Aljazeera.com, 2. Jul 2011

• Porn[ography] tells you that material inequality between women and men is not the result of an economic system. It is biologically based. And women, being whores and bitches and only good for sex, don't deserve full equality. Porn is the ideological mouthpiece that legitimizes our material system of inequality. Porn is to patriarchy what the media is to capitalism. […]
  Pornography has socialized a generation of men into watching sexual torture. You are not born with that capacity. You have to be trained into it. Just like you train soldiers to kill. If you are going to carry out violence against a group you have to dehumanize them. It is an old method. Jews become kikes. Blacks become niggers. Women become cunts. And no one turns women into cunts better than porn.
  Women are told in our society they have two choices. They are either fuckable or invisible. To be fuckable means to conform to the porn culture, to look hot, be submissive and do what the man wants. That's the only way you get visibility. You cannot ask adolescent girls, who are dying for visibility, to choose invisibility.
  Gail Dines, Ph.D., US American professor of sociology and women's studies, Wheelock College, Boston, anti-pornography cam-
  paigner, cited in: Pornography Is What the End of the World Looks Like, presented by the progressive US American news
  website Truthdig, Chris Hedges (*1956) US American journalist, war correspondent, specializing in American and Middle
  Eastern politics and societies, author, Pulitzer Prize laureate, S. 1of 3, 15. February 2015

• Pornography takes violence against women and it sexualises it, and when you sexualise violence against women,
  you render the violence invisible. Gail Dines, Ph.D., US American professor of sociology and women's studies, Wheelock College, Boston, anti-pornography campaigner, documentary The Price of Pleasure, 2014, referenced in: ceaseuk.ok

• Online mainstream pornography overwhelmingly centered on acts of violence and degradation toward women, the sexual behaviors exemplified in pornography skew away from intimacy and tenderness and typify patriarchal con-
  structions of masculinity and femininity. Study by Chyng Sun, Ana Bridges, Jennifer A. Johnson, Matthew B. Ezzell, Porno-
  graphy and the Male Sexual Script: An Analysis of Consumption and Sexual Relations, first online 3. December 2014, presented
  by peer-reviewed academic journal in sexology Archives of Sexual Behavior, volume 45, issue 4, S. 983-994, May 2016

• Healthy relationships are built on equality, honesty, respect, and love. But in porn, it's the reverse; interactions are based on domination, disrespect, abuse, violence, and detachment. Article Sex Before Kissing: How 15-Year-Old Girls
  Are Dealing With Porn-Addicted Boys, presented by fightthenewdrug.org, Australia, 1. April 2016

• I draw a line down the middle of a chalkboard, sketching a male symbol on one side and a female symbol on the
  other. Then I ask just the men: What steps do you guys take, on a daily basis, to prevent yourselves from being sex-
  ually assaulted? At first there is a kind of awkward silence as the men try to figure out if they've been asked a trick
  question. The silence gives way to a smattering of nervous laughter. Occasionally, a young a guy will
  raise his hand and say,
  ☛ 'I stay out of prison.' This is typically followed by another moment of laughter, before someone finally rai-
  ses his hand and soberly states, ☛ 'Nothing. I don't think about it.'
  Then I ask the women the same question. What steps do you take on a daily basis to prevent yourselves from being
  sexually assaulted? Women throughout the audience immediately start raising their hands. As the men sit in stunned
  silence, the women recount safety precautions they take as part of their daily routine.
  ☛ Hold my keys as a potential weapon.
  ☛ Look in the back seat of the car before getting in.
  ☛ Carry a cell phone.
  ☛ Don't go jogging at night.
  ☛ Lock all the windows when I sleep, even on hot summer nights.
  ☛ Be careful not to drink too much.
  ☛ Don't put my drink down and come back to it; make sure I see it being poured.
  ☛ Own a big dog.
  ☛ Carry Mace or pepper spray.
  ☛ Have an unlisted phone number.
  ☛ Have a man's voice on my answering machine.
  ☛ Park in well-lit areas.
  ☛ Don't use parking garages.
  ☛ Don't get on elevators with only one man, or with a group of men.
  ☛ Vary my route home from work.
  ☛ Watch what I wear.
  ☛ Don't use highway rest areas.
  ☛ Use a home alarm system.
  ☛ Don't wear headphones when jogging.
  ☛ Avoid forests or wooded areas, even in the daytime.
  ☛ Don't take a first-floor apartment.
  ☛ Go out in groups.
  ☛ Own a firearm.
  ☛ Meet men on first dates in public places.
  ☛ Make sure to have a car or cab fare.
  ☛ Don't make eye contact with men on the street.
  ☛ Make assertive eye contact with men on the street.
  Jackson Katz, Ph.D. (*1960) US American social theorist, educator, filmmaker, advocate for the prevention of anti-domestic and gender violence, leading anti-sexist male activist, author, The Macho Paradox. Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help, Sourcebooks, 16. April 2006

• Around the world, poor women and girls between the ages of 15 and 44, they are – when victims of the everyday violence of domestic abuse and sexual violence – those two forms of violence account for more death and disability than malaria, than car accidents, than war combined. The truth is, the poor of our world are trapped in whole systems of violence. Video presentation by Gary Haugen (*1964) US American social scientist, international lawyer, founder, CEO, and former president of the global human rights agency International Justice Mission (*1997), The hidden reason for poverty the world needs to address now , transcript, presented by TED Talks, minute 7:50, 22:06 minutes duration, filmed and posted 21. April 2015

• In fact, half a century of anti-poverty programs have left more poor people in slavery than in any other time in human history. […] In South Asia, if you enslave a poor person, you're at greater risk of being struck by lightning than ever being sent to jail for that crime. And so the epidemic of everyday violence, it just rages on. […]
  [Y]ou can give all manner of goods and services to the poor, but if you don't restrain the hands of the violent bullies
  from taking it all away, you're going to be very disappointed in the long-term impact of your efforts. […] The problem
  is not that the poor don't get laws, it's that they don't get law enforcement. In the developing world, basic law
  enforcement systems are so broken that recently the U.N. issued a report that found that "most poor people live
  outside the protection of the law."
  Video presentation by Gary Haugen (*1964) US American social scientist, international lawyer, founder, CEO, and former president of the global human rights agency International Justice Mission (*1997), The hidden reason for poverty the world needs to address now , transcript, presented by TED Talks, 22:06 minutes duration, filmed and posted 21. April 2015

• Real Christian masculinity was defined as domination of sinful women by loveless men.
  Just as the fighting classes were expected to demonstrate their masculinity by their domination of the sinful toiling classes. Audiobook by Lloyd deMause psychohistory.com (1931-2020) US American social
  thinker, lay psychoanalyst, director of The Association for Psychohistory, president of the International Psychohistorical Association, editor of The Journal of Psychohistory, The Origins of War in Child Abuse, chapter 9, transcript, 21. November 2010, Chapter 9: Bipolar Christianity. How Torturing 'Sinful' Children Produced Holy Wars, 1:17:48 duration, MP3 podcast, presented by the
  US American Freedomain Podcasts, A Voice for Men, narrated by founder and host Stefan Molyneux (*1966) Irish-born Canadian blogger/vlogger, podcaster on anarcho-capitalism, politics, secular ethics, atheism, right-libertarianism, cryptocurrencies, self-published author, posted 3. September 2008

• The formula for restaging early traumas is:
  1. Fuse with your persecutory alter ("Terrifying Mommy"),
  2. find a savior alter ("Grandiose Self") whom you follow
  3. to kill the victim alter ("Bad Child").

• Trauma demands repetition. Selma Fraiberg (1918-1981) US American child psychoanalyst, social worker, author, cited in: Lenore Terr, M.D. (*1936) US American pediatric, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist, author on post traumatic stress disorder with-
  in children, Too Scared to Cry. Psychic Trauma in Childhood, S. 209, Basic Books, New York, reprint edition 24. June 1992

• From 1900 to 2006, nonviolent campaigns worldwide were twice as likely to succeed outright as violent insurgencies. And there’s more. This trend has been increasing over time – in the last fifty years civil resistance has become increa-
  singly frequent and effective, whereas violent insurgencies have become increasingly rare and unsuccessful. This is
  true even in extremely brutal [repressive] authoritarian conditions where we might expect nonviolent resistance to fail.
  Video presentation by Erica Chenoweth, Ph.D. (*1980) US American political scientist, assistant professor of international relations, expert on civil resistance, editor, author, The success of nonviolent civil resistance, presented by the independently produced TEDx Boulder Talks, YouTube film, minute 3:47, 12:33 minutes duration, posted 4. November 2013

• When security forces beat up, arrest, or even shoot unarmed activists, there is, indeed, safety in numbers. Large and well-coordinated campaigns can switch from concentrated methods (like protests) to dispersed methods, where people stay away from places they were expected to go. They do strikes, they do stay-at-home demonstrations, they bang on pots and pans, they shut off the electricity at a coordinated time of day – these tactics are much less risky. They're very hard or at least very costly to suppress, while the movement stays just as disruptive.
  Video presentation by Erica Chenoweth, Ph.D. (*1980) US American political scientist, assistant professor of international relations, expert on civil resistance, editor, author, The success of nonviolent civil resistance, presented by the independently produced TEDx Boulder Talks, YouTube film, minute 8:34, 12:33 minutes duration, posted 4. November 2013

• Researchers used to say that no government could survive if just 5 percent of the population rose up against it. Our data shows the number may be lower than that. No single campaign in that period [70s and 80s] failed after they'd achieved the active and sustained participation of just 3.5 percent of the population. But get this: every single campaign that exceeded that 3.5 percent point was a nonviolent one. The nonviolent campaigns were on average four times larger than the average violent campaigns. Erica Chenoweth, Ph.D. (*1980) US American political scientist, assistant professor of international relations, expert on civil resistance, editor, author, cited in: Article Peaceful protest is much more effective than violence for toppling dictators, presented by the American daily newspaper The Washington Post, Max Fisher, 5. November 2013

• [A] strong body of data now show that the harm or injury of "nonviolent" rape goes far beyond what we (or the courts) have realized. Rape or sexual abuse that women may have experienced can change minute aspects of their bodies' and minds' very functions. It can alter, for example, the operation of their baseline autonomic nervous systems, so that raped women in one study (by Rellini and Meston³⁴) have different physiological responses to erotic videos and even to physical exercise than a control group of women who have not been so traumatised. Further, a researcher named Dr Burke Richmond³⁵ has found a constellation of seemingly unrelated medical symptoms – from "phobic postural sway", which allows a woman literally to be more easily pushed over, to tinnitus (ringing in the ears) and perceptual problems such as vertigo – which last for years after a "nonviolent" rape. Video presentation by Naomi Wolf (*1962) US American former political consultant, political activist, social critic, leading spokesperson of the third wave of the feminist movement, author, The brain science of the vagina heralds a new sexual revolution, presented by the British daily newspaper The Guardian,
  8. September 2012

• There's a statistical truth here – men commit 12 times as many homicides than women, 75% men admit to the occa-
  sional homicidal thought, which means 25% are lying! Men consume more violent entertainment, have more violent
  fantasies. Most of the world's bloodiest mass murderers, Hitler to Stalin, were men. A woman head of state is more
  likely to look at the costs and benefits of violence. Societies that empower women are less violent in every way.
  Steven Pinker, Ph.D. (*1954) Canadian-born US American Johnstone professor of experimental psychology, Harvard University, cognitive scientist, linguist, popular science author, cited in: article Ours is the most peaceful time in history: Steven Pinker, pre-
  sented by the daily newspaper The Times of India (TOI), Vikas Singh and Srijana Mitra, 22. January 2012

• Rape is a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear.
  Susan Brownmiller (*1935) US American feminist, social activist, journalist, author, cited in: Kathryn Cullen-DuPont, Encyclo-
  pedia of Women's History in America, S. 6-7, Infobase Publishing, 1. August 2000, 1. January 2009

• Rape is a crime not of lust, but of violence and power.
  Susan Brownmiller (*1935) US American feminist, social activist, journalist, author, cited in: Sally Moore, 'Rape Is a Crime
  Not of Lust, but Power,' argues Susan Brownmiller, presented by the publication People, 10. November 1975, retrieved 5. February 2012

• The capacity for control is a cultural standard against which all men are measured and judged, especially by other men, who authorize their standing as 'real men' among men, a status that sets them apart from and above women who are presumed to lack a manly capacity for control, especially over their emotions. Men are presumed to be superior to women because of men’s supposed ability always to be in control – to be tough, logical, dispassionate, objective,
  and decisive; to be in charge of themselves and whatever situation they're in; to always be right, to never quit, give
  in, back down, accept defeat, admit a mistake, or in any other way be vulnerable. And, if necessary, to be violent.
  Allan G. Johnson, Ph.D., US American sociologist, public speaker, novelist, writer on social inequality, Men's Silence about
  Men's Violence, press conference Purple Tie Day, State Capitol, Hartford, Connecticut, 26. October 2010

• Violence may not be overcome by violence but maybe also not always without violence.
  Erich Fried (1921-1988) Austrian English politically-minded poet, broadcaster, translator, essayist, translated by Viola Raheb from Vorübung für ein Wunder. Gedichte vom Zorn und von der Liebe (German), S. 356, Wagenbachs Taschenbuch, 1999

• [The daemonic is] any natural function which has the power to take over the whole person [or whole nation] […] the daemonic can either be creative or destructive [i.e., demonic], but it is normally both […]. Violence is the daemonic gone awry […] ages [such as ours] tend to be times when the daemonic is expressed in its most destructive form. The daimonic is obviously not an entity but refers to a fundamental, archetypal function of human experience – an existential reality. Rollo May may-rollo (1909-1994) US American existential psychologist, author, Love and Will, S. 123-124, W. W. Norton & Company, 1969

• Testosterone is not destiny; despite what the peddlers of third-rate evolutionary psychology sometimes insist. Manhood, as we practice it in America, traditionally expects violence as an initiation ritual of some sort. But manhood (as opposed to maleness) is an artificial construct. As a construct, it can be altered – if we want it.
  Hugo Schwyzer (*1967) US American professor of gender studies, speaker, author, cited in: article Are Men Inherently Violent?, presented by the US American men's initiative The Good Men Project, Tom Matlack, 7. January 2011

• In mainstream American culture, we teach boys and men that they should be violent, or at least ready to be violent
  if it becomes necessary. Among other things, we tell them that
  ➢ "a man never backs down from a fight,"
  ➢ "men protect others (especially women and children),"
  ➢ and that we can "step outside and settle it like men."
  When a guy doesn't follow these dictates, we call him a wimp.
  Article by Andrew P. Smiler, Ph.D., US American research psychologist, focusing on masculinity and young men's sex lives,
  president of Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity (SPSMM), Are You Man Enough?, presented by
  the US American men's initiative The Good Men Project, 9. September 2010

• There are only two means by which men can deal with one another:
  ➢ guns or logic.
  ➢ force or persuasion.
  Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns.
  ⚡ Ayn Rand (1905-1982) Russian-American philosopher, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, Faith and Force. The Destroyers
  of the Modern World, lecture, Yale University, 17. February 1960, published as a pamphlet by the Nathaniel Branden Institute,
  1967, later published in posthumous collection of essays Philosophy. Who Needs It, Bobbs-Merrill, 1982

• It takes four generations to heal one act of violence. Wisdom of the Cherokee tribe