Awareness Quotes

"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic."

- Joseph Stalin

"History is a vast early warning system."

- Norman Cousins

"History is a vast early warning system. #PayAttention #HistoricalPatterns"

- Norman Cousins

"In the long run we are all dead."

- John Maynard Keynes

"I'm trying to raise the awareness of the troops that, when they deploy and go to war, it's not just them at war - it's also their family. Their family is having to go through all the hardships and the stresses."

- Chris Kyle

"The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived and dishonest – but the myth – persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the clichés of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."

- John F. Kennedy

"It was a beautiful, bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it."

- Diana Gabaldon

"Panem et circenses"

- Juvenal

"My children are the silent witnesses to the coercive and controlling behaviour which governed our lives. Although they are moving forwards, they, like me, are strong and practised against the dominator, we will always remember the fear of the unexpected, be vigilant to the change of tone, the treading of eggshells and the ultimate questioning of ‘self’. I now teach such abused children and I bear witness to the lasting damage to those children who have witnessed this abuse. I urge every authority to be vigilant of every health appointment being missed, any child unexpectedly being removed from school and the questionable responsibility of a new stepfather. This voice is sent especially to the Armed Forces to acknowledge and pay respect to the voices of the wives and children of the culpable perpetrators. It is OK not to be ok but it is NOT ok to do nothing about it."

- Sandy Noble – DA Survivor

"My dad was abusive to my mum when I was a child, and some of my earliest memories are of feeling afraid for her and for myself. There was no support for me when I was a child. We weren’t picked up by social services, my school didn’t notice, no one ever asked me whether anything was wrong at home. I am often amazed that now, almost 40 years later, there is still little dedicated support for children who have lived alongside or directly suffered domestic abuse. We recover from the scars left on our bodies, but those left unseen in our minds may never heal. The effects last a lifetime, and if I had one wish for IDEVAW 2020 it would be to improve support and funding for services, not only for adult victims of abuse but for children. If I could travel back in time, I would tell that little girl who was me just one thing: It’s not your fault."

- Sarah – Childhood Survivor of Domestic Abuse

"If you alter your behaviour because you are frightened of how your partner will react, you are being abused."

- Sandra Horley

"Gaslighting is the systematic attempt by one person to erode another person’s reality by telling them that what they are experiencing isn’t so — and, the gradual giving up on the part of the other person."

- Robin Stern

"Domestic violence can be so easy for people to ignore, as it often happens without any witnesses and it is sometimes easier not to get involved. Yet, by publicly speaking out against domestic violence, together we can challenge attitudes towards violence in the home and show that domestic violence is a crime and not merely unacceptable."

- Honor Blackman

"Vulnerant omnes, ultima necat"

"Memento mori"

"Tempus fugit"

"Vita Brevis | "Life Is Short""

"In vino veritas. — In wine, there is truth."

"nihil credite, omnia interrogate (believe nothing, question everything)"

"Tempus Fugit (Time Flies)"

"Hodie mihi, cras tibi."

"Una hirundo non facit ver."

"Magna est vis consuetudinis."

"Love should never hurt. Seek help, find peace."

"Abuse is not love; love doesn’t hurt."

"Angelic light now shines revealing this world’s illusion."

"The veil lifts; what vistas unfold! Spirit knows spirit, light meets light."

"I stand awake upon immortal shores, earth’s slumbering dreams now o’er."

"Radiant living light of heaven, stream through my soul’s awakened sight."

"Unveiled before my sight infinity’s landscape; spirit knows spirit, light greets light."