1,621 Quotes About Violence

before humanity chokes (or basks) in the dungeon(or paradise) of a Western-centered global empire or of an East Asian-centered world-market society, “it might well burn up in the horrors (or glories) of the escalating violence that has accompanied the liquidation of the Cold War world order.

If the state is just the accumulated results of past conflicts, and if preservation of the state becomes the end that grounds necessity, then the fact of violence becomes a kind of law, and the law, grounded in the need to preserve what fate has established, blurs into the fact of organized violence

Divine violence expiates; it releases from guilt. It operates not by the destruction of bodies but by the destruction of the systems of laws or ethics that declare an action to be right or wrong.

No skeptic ever invaded a country or burnt a heretic at the stake.

When the uninformed argue with the misinformed, there is no need to choose a side.

A stick beats more ugliness into a person than it ever beats out.

The point is, if you pay attention to the women, a more complex history of Israel's conquests emerges. Their stories invite the reader to consider the human cost of violence and patriarchy, and in that sense prove instructive to all who wish to work for a better world.

In an era of increasing violence, it is smart to query what has changed in the human environment to cause this.

The will to solve problems inhabits only a few in this world. Lesser people are content with complaining, scapegoating, spilling blood...