quotations about violence
Return not violence for violence.
ABU HANIFA
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attributed, Day's Collacon
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"
Physical love is unthinkable without violence.
MILAN KUNDERA
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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
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
Jesus empowered us to choose mercy on the cross. The crucifixion exposes human violence -- the kind that continues to put the living image of God to death -- for the atrocity that it is. In Jesus, we recognize the ways in which we all participate in systems of death. And in Jesus, we learn that even killers are to be forgiven.
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
Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.
NAOMI KLEIN
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism