quotations about violence
It is essential that we reject any "absolutizing" that would justify violence. For violence is the negation of every authentic religious expression.
POPE FRANCIS
"Pope Francis in Egypt", National Catholic Register, April 28, 2017
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 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
Violence becometh not a Christian.
J. MOODY
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
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