State Violence Quotes
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State Violence Quotes & Sayings
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It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?
— Epictetus
If you say that something is impossible, you take your place amongst the losers, may be not immediately, but definitely for the future!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I pick and choose what I want to do at any given time, and what not to do, importantly. My agents, I won't hear about any offers or options.
— Martin McDonagh
The most powerful State in the world, which up to now was relatively protected from terrorist violence, is no longer an inviolable sanctuary.
— Omar Bongo
What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being.
— Wendell Berry
Violence is the power of the state; imagination and non-violence the power of civil society.
— Rebecca Solnit
Control and violence that is best reflected in the state, are evil in themselves. In this knowledge lies the great truth of anarchism.
— Nikolai A. Berdyaev
Most Americans would say that they disapproved of violence. But what they really mean is that they believe it should be the monopoly of the state.
— Edgar Friedenberg
All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute.
— Peter Shaffer
Donna fight the darkness, nobody. Embrace it.
— Heather R. Blair
Modernity starts with the state monopoly on violence, and ends with the state's monopoly on fiscal irresponsibility.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.
— Jorge Luis Borges
A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
— Sigmund Freud
Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today.
— Edward Weston
The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.
— Kenneth Kaunda
We set ourselves the ultimate aim of abolishing the state, i.e., all organized and systematic violence, all use of violence against people in general.
— Vladimir Lenin
Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state.
— Robert Lacey
This violent state of mind.
This violent state of mine. — Don Winslow
This violent state of mine. — Don Winslow
Throughout history, the characteristic feature of the nation state is its monopoly of violence.
— Matt Ridley
Women are secretaries of state and prime ministers - but people still don't expect women to be involved in violence.
— Mia Bloom
I'm basically a libertarian, and I'm a conservative on economic matters, and I'm a social liberal.
— David H. Koch
[Rape is] nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear.
— Susan Brownmiller
Worry leads to worry.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was?
— Salman Rushdie
Everything done by the state is ultimately done by means of aggression, which is to say violence or the threat of violence against the innocent.
— Llewellyn Rockwell
We cannot allow violence from militant activists to dictate where and how democratically elected state leaders hold their meetings.
— Otto Schily
The state represents violence in a concentrated and organize form.
— Mahatma Gandhi
As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
When Violence floods the State from above, flowery land razed for robot proliferation
— Allen Ginsberg
No, good my lord; let's fight with gentle words Till time lend friends, and friends their helpful swords.
— William Shakespeare
all who benefit from the inherent violence of the state are implicated in its cruelty.
— Karen Armstrong
The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.
— Mahatma Gandhi