“Has he ever trapped you in a room and not let you out? Has he ever raised a fist as if he were going to hit you? Has he ever thrown an object that hit you or nearly did? Has he ever held you down or grabbed you to restrain you? Has he ever threatened to hurt you? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then we can stop wondering whether he'll ever be violent; he already has been.” IfsHas BeensHurtAnswersRoomsWonderObjectsRaisedViolentThrownTrappedThreatenedFists Author:Lundy Bancroft
“Football is a violent sport. Somebody's going to get hurt. It's the game. Just hopefully, you're on the good side of it.” GamesSportsSidesHurtFootballViolentHopefully Author:Ndamukong Suh
“I'm sure there have been guys who didn't realize they had a concussion and just kept playing. It's a violent game. The head injuries are the most dangerous to play with. We're trained to play no matter what. If you can run, and you're able to focus and know your responsibilities, you're usually out there playing. You wouldn't have enough players if no one played hurt. Especially if you're, like, on special teams, you're going to do everything you can to stay in the game.” IfsKnowsHas BeensMatterEnoughPlayRunningAbleGuyGamesRealizingHurtResponsibilityFocusPlayerTeamSpecialDangerousNo Matter WhatViolentNflInjuryWhat IfConcussionsHead InjuriesSpecial Teams Author:Mike Brown
“And for any victim of a violent crime, when you actually get to go in and realize and see their faces and know that they can't hurt you any more, there is no feeling like that. It finally frees you from a lot of demons.” KnowsFeelingsFacesRealizingHurtCrimeVictimViolentDemonViolent Crimes Author:Patty Hearst
“People are terrible. They do terrible things to each other, they hurt each other, they lie, they're vain, they're shallow, they're violent ... but they're all we have.” PeopleLyingHurtTerribleViolentVainShallowTerrible Things Author:Torquil Campbell
“Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent.” KnowsHurtKnow HowForgivingViolentHow To Forgive Author:Rajneesh
“I think words are the thing that either triumphs for you, in your desire to communicate something, or fails. I love language because when it succeeds, for me, it doesn't just tell me something. It enacts something. It creates something. And it goes both ways. Sometimes it's violent. Sometimes it hurts you. And sometimes it saves you.” ThinkingWaySometimesDesireLanguageHurtFailingSucceedCommunicateViolentTriumphIt HurtsSometimes It Hurts Author:Claudia Rankine
“Look at the growing number of people that want to ban football. Or ban anything that might hurt somebody. Too violent or too brutal or what have you. There's a segment of our adult population that's still children, still kids.” PeopleWantLooksChildrenStillsMightKidsHurtNumbersGrowingFootballAdultsPopulationViolentBrutalBans Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think culture is where things change in us deeply. But right now, I think that people are very traumatised. They are very scared. Having grown up in a house with a perpetrator who was violent every day and terrorising every day, I feel like that this country is suddenly very much like the house and the family I grew up in. Every day we are glued to our phones, glued to our television; "What is this psychopath going to do next? How will he embarrass us? Who will he bully or hurt or humiliate today? It's so easy to get locked into a syndrome where the perpetrator is ruling your life.” PeopleThinkingCountryTodayCultureHouseEasyHurtScaredViolentBullyThings ChangePsychopathHumiliate Author:Eve Ensler