Violence Quotes - Page 9

the flames are silent,
Peace is violent,
Tears are frozen
’cause massacre was chosen.

~~ 26/11– Mumbai terror attack memories

All violence demands reform, and all violence desperately begs to be healed.

Peace in patriarchy is war against women.

My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of some unpredictable force that might, at any moment, break loose, and do something terrible. [Burnside, p. 27]

The passive and overt violence waged against the women and children of the world must end.

Behind every person who’s committed an unimaginable crime is an adult who committed unimaginable violence against them as a child. All of them, as if it was plotted that way. Violence begets violence, and that violence begets even more violence.

There is nothing more pathetically sad than a parent who teaches a child not to hit by spanking them. Well, that, and adults who think hitting someone will solve a problem.

What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?

As the most powerful people in history, we have climbed to the top of the world food chain, so to speak. Facing not one single enemy or predator who poses to us any danger of consequence, we've found the only prey left: ourselves.

We have been trained by a culture of violence and we are all agents of passive violence.

Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting-or even demanding-their own enslavement.

No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another.

Recall that the minimum wage was initially conceived as a method to exclude undesirables from the workforce.

If the bulk of the public were really convinced of the illegitimacy of the State, if it were convinced that the State is nothing more nor less than a bandit gang writ large, then the State would soon collapse to take on no more status or breadth of existence than another Mafia gang.

When the state itself is held to the same moral standards as everyone else, it dies. And that's a wonderful thing.

The very term ‘public utility’ … is an absurd one. Every good is useful ‘to the public,’ and almost every good … may be considered ‘necessary.’ Any designation of a few industries as ‘public utilities’ is completely arbitrary and unjustified.

While liberals are in favor of any sexual activity engaged in by two consenting adults, when these consenting adults engage in trade or exchange, the liberals step in to harass, cripple, restrict, or prohibit that trade. And yet both the consenting sexual activity and the trade are similar expressions of liberty in action.

War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security.

The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this-that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot.

Government is a gun that shoots money at your enemy and blows up in your face.