quotations about violence
Our tax dollars fund warped priorities, and our culture of vengeance infects our hearts and minds, lying to us and telling us that some violence is righteous, and that some people are beyond redemption.
LINDSAY PARIS-LOPEZ
"Are We Really Ready for New Life in Christ?", Sojourners, April 28, 2017
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
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 becometh not a Christian.
J. MOODY
attributed, Day's Collacon
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"
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
Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.
NAOMI KLEIN
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism