1,621 Quotes About Violence

Whoever has the sword will have the earth.

It’s the process of being minimized, invalidated, silenced. It’s the process of being subjected to whatever someone else thinks I owe them. It’s the process of being used, examined, explored, and thrown away. It’s the process of being convinced to comply with the orders of someone who does not see me as their equal, someone who sees nothing wrong with the notion that I’m somehow lesser than they are. Rape isn’t about sex; it’s about all those other things. It’s about power.

We are currently facing many hurdles, BUT will never lose the sight of infinite hope.

In other words, they appeal to the state for protection, but the state is precisely that from which they require protection. To be protected from violence by the nation-state is to be exposed to the violence wielded by the nation-state, so to rely on the nation-state for protection from violence is precisely to exchange one potential violence for another. There may, indeed, be few other choices.

If the only option you leave poor people with is to resort to violence in order to survive, they’ll do just that. And there are lots more poor people in this world than there are rich ones.

We are currently facing countless hurdles and obstacles, BUT will never lose the sight of infinite hope.

The fish does not know it is wet. America is immersed in violence. The violence is in our souls. The enemy is within.

Violent consumption demands violent production.

As long as we do violence to other animals, we’ll keep on doing violence to ourselves.