quotations about violence
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
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
ANONYMOUS
often dubiously attributed to George Orwell
They had learned that the act of violence is the act of weakness, and that the spirit's strength lies in holding fast to the truth.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
"The Eye of the Heron"
Violence becometh not a Christian.
J. MOODY
attributed, Day's Collacon
Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the gun down.
MALCOLM X
attributed, Words of Wisdom: Malcolm X
Physical love is unthinkable without violence.
MILAN KUNDERA
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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