1,621 Quotes About Violence

If the bulk of the public were really convinced of the illegitimacy of the State, if it were convinced that the State is nothing more nor less than a bandit gang writ large, then the State would soon collapse to take on no more status or breadth of existence than another Mafia gang.

In particular, the State has arrogated to itself a compulsory monopoly over police and military services, the provision of law, judicial decision-making, the mint and the power to create money, unused land ("the public domain"), streets and highways, rivers and coastal waters, and the means of delivering mail...the State relies on control of the levers of propaganda to persuade its subjects to obey or even exalt their rulers.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

Education about gender and peace is important. Educational strategies to promote peace must consider all relations of dominance.

Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

Yet I now ask of you—are you marauders or are you servants? Do you give power to others, or do you hoard it? Do you fight not to have something, but rather fight so that others might one day have something? Is your blade a part of your soul, or is it a burden, a tool, to be used with care? Are you soldiers, my children, or are you savages?

She always says I'm the best friend that she's ever had... how do you hang up on someone who needs you that bad? ~From 'Laura' on The Nylon Curtain

Why there is so much violence and suffering in the world? This question burns in the hearts of all kind and peace loving people. But most people satisfy themselves with the readymade answers given by opinion makers, social activists, Karma theorists and so on. Prince Siddhartha Gautama went deeper to find answers and found the absolute truth.

Everyone who is not happy must be shot.