PSYCHOLOGICAL VIOLENCE: THE PHRASES OF THE GREAT AUTHORS WHO TELL IT

On November 25th we celebrate the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, but still today cases of femicide continue to increase neither in Italy nor in the world. Too often we hear reports of domestic violence that result in irreparable drama. However, physical violence is not the only form of violence that hundreds of thousands of women are forced to suffer every day. In fact, there is a subtle and invisible form of maltreatment that takes the name of psychological violence and it claims more victims than you can imagine.

Psychological violence is like a snake crawling through the home.Many women experience such a situation on their skin within a toxic relationship and a dysfunctional couple's life, but it is not always easy to recognize that one has fallen victim to this form of maltreatment. then we see in detail the most famous phrases and aphorisms that tell of violence in general and psychological violence.

How to recognize psychological violence

A slap leaves marks, bruises. A constant pressure called psychological violence no. It reveals nothing to the outside. In fact, this abuse manifests itself through a few sentences or behaviors that, for love, may not be noticed right away.

First of all, there is a continuous devaluation of the partner in question. The criticisms can be directed at her physical appearance, how she dresses, her work: in short, any area of her life. silence, used to unleash a powerful sense of guilt in the woman for everything she does. Likewise, in the case of psychological violence, there is often no lack of episodes of passive-aggressive attitudes made up of irritated tones, half-hearted sentences and perennial long faces .

Living like this leads the woman victim of this abuse to have a serious and serious collapse of her self-esteem, to feel insecure of her own abilities and to see in her partner the only person of reference of her existence.

The best aphorisms that condemn violence

If for centuries, in the ancestral cultural heritage, violence was understood as a positive expression of strength and power, it is increasingly seen from the opposite perspective, or rather as an "action to be condemned, which deprives the human being of his dignity." Here are some sentences that reflect on this issue.

Violence is not strength but weakness, nor can it ever be the creator of anything but only destroyer.
Benedetto Croce

Violence is a disease, a disease that harms all who use it, regardless of the cause.
Chris Hedges

I oppose violence because when it seems to do good, good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Mahatma Gandhi

Violence is the last refuge of the incapable.
Isaac Asimov

Violence never resolves conflicts, nor does it diminish their dramatic consequences.
John Paul II

Violence is an inferior method of struggle, brutal, above all illusory, the son of weakness, a source of weakness, despite, indeed because of its ephemeral triumphs.
Filippo Turati

Violence is nothing but the most flagrant manifestation of power.
Hannah Arendt

Violence is a lack of vocabulary.
Gilles Vigneault

The most beautiful phrases on the antithesis between violence and love

Since violence is now severely condemned, many authors have highlighted how it is the opposite of feelings such as love, made of respect, delicacy and true passion. Let's see their quotes on the relationship between love and physical brutality.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do it. Hate cannot drive away hate: only love can do it. Hate multiplies hatred, violence multiplies violence, harshness multiplies harshness, in a downward spiral of destruction.
Martin Luther King

Mankind can only get rid of violence by resorting to non-violence. Hate can only be defeated with love. Responding to hatred with hatred only increases the magnitude and depth of the hate itself.
Mahatma Gandhi

A gesture of love sews sky with sky, threshold with threshold and life with life. An act of violence sews only black with black and no flower, no color and no formula of serenity are grafted into that darkness.
Fabrizio Caramagna

Man must develop a method for every human conflict that refuses revenge, aggression, retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Martin Luther King

We live in a world where we hide to make love, while violence and hatred spread in the sunlight.
John Lennon

Quotations from great authors against indifference

However, history teaches us that executioners are not always the only enemies to defend against. Those who turn away and close their eyes to an episode of violence and abuse are equally guilty.

I have sworn never to be silent, in any place and in any situation where human beings are forced to suffer suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides.
Neutrality favors the oppressor, never the victim.
Silence helps the executioner, never the tortured.
Elie Wiesel

What scares me is not the violence of the bad guys; it is the indifference of the good.
Martin Luther King

Indifference is worse than violence. You cannot defend yourself from indifference.
Liliana Segre

The most touching quotes against violence against women

When we talk about violence, unfortunately today we still think of what is constantly perpetrated against women. Professional writers, activists and celebrities from the entertainment world have often addressed this issue in their texts or in their statements on the occasion of November 25 or other public events.

When they rape, beat, cripple, mutilate, burn, bury, terrorize women, the essential energy of life on this planet is destroyed. It forces what was born to be open, confident, warm, creative and alive to be bent, sterile and tamed.
Eve Ensler

No one, in front of women, is more arrogant, aggressive and disdainful than a man who is unsure of his own virility.
Simone de Beauvoir

The violence of man evokes an ancient, primordial fear, rooted in the deepest part of the female soul. It unleashes a biological panic that can even lead to death.
Francesco Alberoni

Violence against women is one of the most shameful violations of human rights.
Kofi Annan

We exchange everything for love, while love with violence and beatings does not have a pipe. Love, with slaps and punches, has something to do with freedom with prison. A man who leads us does not love us. Let's put it in our head. Let's save it on the hard disk. Should we believe that you love us? Good. Then he loves us badly.
This is not love.
Instead, we delude ourselves that we can change things, that we can correct handicapped men, that we can make them grow even when their development has stopped, and they kick and scream like capricious children. Only they are children one and eighty tall, with gorilla shoulders and hands that look like spades.
Let us never, never, never delude ourselves that we can change them, or that they can change for our love. Even if they cry like calves and say they won't do it again. Let's not fall for it and ask for help as soon as possible. And if a daughter has a boyfriend like that, let's get her, wrap her up and bring her back home.
Luciana Littizzetto

The monster does not sleep under the bed. The monster can sleep next to you.
Anonymous

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

Violence against women is as old as the world, but today we would have liked to hope that an advanced, civil and democratic society would not feed the chronicles of abuse, murder and rape.
Helga Schneider

The more the woman tries to establish herself as equal in dignity, value and rights to man, the more the man reacts in a violent way. The fear of losing even a few crumbs of power makes him vulgar, aggressive, violent.
Michela Marzano

Only a small man uses violence against women to feel great.
Anonymous

Rape belongs to a male idea of revenge. A woman, if she wants to take revenge, ignores you.
Carmen Covito

Some men are unable to harm a fly just because they are unable to catch it.
Helmut Qualtinger

We all grow up in a culture where women's bodies are constantly being transformed into things, into objects. [...] Obviously this affects women's self-esteem. It also does something even more insidious. Create a climate where violence against women is rife. Turning a human being into an object is the first step towards justified violence against that person.
Jean Kilbourne

In order not to blush in front of his victim, the man who began to hurt her kills her.
Honore de Balzac

The best phrases about psychological violence

Finally, let us dwell on the thorny issue of psychological violence. As we have already mentioned, although it often takes a back seat to physical abuse, this abuse is part of the lives of hundreds of thousands of women who struggle to make their voices heard.

Especially today, in an age of sexual permissiveness, rape does not respond to a physiological need, easily satisfiable otherwise, but to the psychological need to humiliate and annihilate women, the enemy that has always escaped control.
Massimo Fini

It happened to me in a dark street, to take my cell phone from my bag and pretend: "Yes, I'm on my way". We always feel a bit prey, potential victims, for the sole fact of being women.
Miriam Leone

True, you hardly ever hit me. But your screams, your red face, the straps unfastened and held ready on the back of the chair, were almost worse.
Franz Kafka

Domestic violence causes far more pain than the visible signs of bruises and scars. It is devastating to be abused by someone you love and think they love you.
Dianne Feinstein

The family, this island of safety, can at the same time be the site of extreme violence.
Boris Cyrulnik