Quotes About Violence

a) Convertibilidad universal: con el dinero como alquimista, se puede convertir la tierra en lealtad, la justicia en salud y la violencia en conocimiento. b) Confianza universal: con el dinero como intermediario, cualesquiera dos personas pueden cooperar en cualquier proyecto.

In contrast, over the course of the next 1,500 years, Christians slaughtered Christians by the millions to defend slightly different interpretations of the religion of love and compassion.

And tear him to pieces, like a mortal! Let him shoot down all the gods from the sky!

In many respects, the conquests were swift and largely bloodless. Instead of the usual scenes of wanton death and destruction, the cities and towns occupied by the Arabs were treated almost gently, and seem to have welcomed the exchange of rulers. Given the disarray of both the Persian and the Byzantine armies in the region, and the absence of strong organized resistance, that makes sense. There was, in essence, no need for substantial violence.

Exploitation is capitalism's most effective naturalized violence, a systemic violence experienced by most of the world, and yet rarely recognized as a form of violence, or a form of violence that you can do something about: We know that capitalism is bad, ruthless even, but we don't believe anything else is better. Capitalism or the Gulag? We choose the former each time.

Preaching tolerance and respect for alterity while ignoring capitalism's systemic violence produces a toothless anti-racism, an anti-racism only comfortable with blaming the type of behavior witnessed in the events of Charlottesville. This type of anti-racism is never sufficient to produce meaningful change.

The fact that Ishtar's sexual encounters usually mingle eroticism with violence was pointed out by Harris (1990: 264). However, it is not because Ishtar shatters the boundaries of her sex by proposing marriage (a masculine act) that Gilgamesh is frightened. -Women of Babylon: Gender and representation in Mesopotamia

We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed.

Halt!..." Wade leaped at the white Belllounds. "If you run I'll break a leg for you--an' then I'll beat your miserable brains out!... Have you no sense? Can't you recognize what's comin'?... I'm goin' to kill you, Buster Jack!" "My God!" whispered the other, understanding fully at last.

Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I don't think they sit there abstractly hating freedom.

All political power comes from the barrel of a gun.

If one must fight one should confine oneself to conventional weapons.

We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war.

War can only be abolished through war ... in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

It's not right to respond to terrorism by terrorizing other people. And furthermore, it's not going to help. Then you might say, "Yes, it's terrorizing people, but it's worth doing because it will end terrorism." But how much common sense does it take to know that you cannot end terrorism by indiscriminately dropping bombs?

Behind the deceptive words designed to entice people into supporting violence -- words like democracy, freedom, self-defense, national security -- there is the reality of enormous wealth in the hands of a few, while billions of people in the world are hungry, sick, homeless.

The term "just war" contains an internal contradiction. War is inherently unjust, and the great challenge of our time is how to deal with evil, tyranny, and oppression without killing huge numbers of people.

We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children. War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.

Are terrorists going to be deterred -- are terrorists going to be scared if we react violently? No. They love it. That's what they dote on. They dote on violence. They dote on having more reasons to commit more terrorism.

What if culture itself is nothing but a halt, a break, a respite, in the pursuit of barbarity?

When authority is backed up by an immediate physical compulsion, what we are dealing with is not authority proper (i.e. symbolic authority), but simply an agency of brute force.

Meet Curly and Mo," I said. "I want you to divide into two groups and form an orderly queue to give these two a bit of stick. Basically, do what you like to them. Punch them, kick them, knee them in the knackers. Pretend they're your boss, your spouse, or whoever's been giving you grief lately.

His rage was a saw, going back and forth, cutting through arteries, hers.

We are trying to build peace by inventing new war machines; if that isn't insanity than what is?