Quotes About Pacification

Governments encourage this pacification by various distractions, what used to be called "bread and circuses." They know it will keep us small, content, and uninterested in those "weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and good faith" (Matthew 23:23) that have attracted all great souls. A

those phones have become adult pacifiers.

The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.

Compulsory arbitration is a practical instrument of pacification and, as such, it can and should be enacted by the Hague Conference.

When we reflect on these incidents in Abu Ghraib prison and beyond, it seems that torture was systematic, not aberrant, and that its widespread proliferation was symptomatic of both command decisions and a crisis in the ranks over a failing pacification effort.

My proposal is one of national reconciliation, of national pacification. I've already said this many times, but what I propose is a government that could act as a national salvation.

The world is a horrible place, but no one worries because we have all been pacified by anodyne television in which incorruptible cops solve crimes, crusading lawyers keep the innocent out of prison, and streetwise social workers rescue children from abuse.

The notion that you can duff up a country for three months, pacify it for a bit longer and then miraculously transform it into a liberal democracy is just ludicrous. You might achieve some kind of democracy: it's the liberal bit I take issue with.

Marx rejeitava era o mito sentimental do Estado como fonte de harmonia, pacificamente unindo diferentes grupos e classes. Para ele, o Estado era mais uma fonte de divisão do que de concórdia

The days of the revolution now give place to the period of regular organization, liberty, and prosperity, which that revolution guarantees. Thus, when everything concurs for the pacification of internal troubles, the threats of the enemies of France must, in the face of the public happiness, appear even to themselves insensate.

War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification; it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.

Seven billion who need to be kept happy, and docile, until the end. How do you do that? What's the best way to calm down a scared kid, get them to go back to sleep? Tell them a story. Some shit about Jesus or whatever.

In particular, it lacked the skills to carry out pacification effectively—or as Kissinger politely put it, "the special qualities developed in a decade or more of combat training do not include discriminating political judgment in volatile and complex circumstances.

We need to unify Brazil, to pacify it.

The trade unions, far from being content with these declarations, established international liaisons and supported every policy based on pacification and understanding.

Rigakos suggests that the term "security" has become analytically useless and should be shifted to "pacification". Pacification, he writes, can excite our critical imaginations in new ways. Pacification captures the mobilization of policong in a manner that sheds light on the objects, history and politics of such interventions. Thus, rather than obscuring global capitalist relations, pacification unpacks these connections.

He had already chosen the title of the book, after much thought: The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger.

War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification; it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.

Forced," of course, is a euphemism with the exact opposite meaning, like "pacification," which usually involved a great degree of homicidal force on rambunctious natives.

A true warrior is always armed with three things: the radiant sword of pacification; the mirror of bravery, wisdom, and friendship; and the precious jewel of enlightenment