quotations about violence
All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.
MARSHALL B. ROSENBERG
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the gun down.
MALCOLM X
attributed, Words of Wisdom: Malcolm X
Violence is a disease and police are not doctors. We have whole communities now living in trauma where extreme violence is normalised in young lives. Our establishment is failing abysmally.
GARY TROWSDALE
"Peckham stabbing is sixth knife crime death in London in a week", The Guardian, April 28, 2017
Physical love is unthinkable without violence.
MILAN KUNDERA
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Violence becometh not a Christian.
J. MOODY
attributed, Day's Collacon
Violence is the whole essence of authoritarianism, just as the repudiation of violence is the whole essence of anarchism.
ERRICO MALATESTA
"Anarchism, Authoritarian Socialism and Communism", What is Anarchism?: An Introduction
Violence gains nothing, killing wins nothing -- only sometimes nothing is what people want. Death is what they want. And they get it.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
"The Eye of the Heron"
Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.
NAOMI KLEIN
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism