As sexual violence affects all parts of society, the response to sexual violence is comprehensive. The responses can be categorized as:
Famous quotes containing the words initiatives, prevent and/or violence:
“It is well known, that the best productions of the best human intellects, are generally regarded by those intellects as mere immature freshman exercises, wholly worthless in themselves, except as initiatives for entering the great University of God after death.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“Of course, in the reality of history, the Machiavellian view which glorifies the principle of violence has been able to dominate. Not the compromising conciliatory politics of humaneness, not the Erasmian, but rather the politics of vested power which firmly exploits every opportunity, politics in the sense of the “Principe,” has determined the development of European history ever since.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)