Violence Quotes by Henry Giroux

As the welfare state is hollowed out, a culture of compassion is replaced by a culture of violence, cruelty and disposability.

— Henry Giroux

Violence now becomes the only tool by which we can actually mediate social problems that should be dealt with in very different…

— Henry Giroux

The architecture of war and violence is now matched by a barrage of goods parading as fashion.

— Henry Giroux

Once ignorance is weaponized, violence seems to be a tragic inevitability.

— Henry Giroux

There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty.

— Henry Giroux

America's addiction to violence is partly evident in the heroes it chooses to glorify.

— Henry Giroux

I also think that one of the things we often fail to realize is that that kind of violence is now legitimated…

— Henry Giroux

There is the emergence of a militarized society that now organizes itself for the production of violence. A society in which the…

— Henry Giroux

Certainly I think the state is more than willing to not only attempt to change the consciousness of people, but to employ…

— Henry Giroux

State violence operating under the guise of personal safety and security, while parading as a bulwark of democracy, actually does the opposite…

— Henry Giroux

Within the existing neoliberal historical conjuncture, there is a merging of violence and governance and the systemic disinvestment in and breakdown of…

— Henry Giroux

We need to remember that education can be both a basis for critical thought and a site for repression, which destroys thinking…

— Henry Giroux

As young people make diverse claims on the promise of a radical democracy, articulating what a fair and just world might be,…

— Henry Giroux

State violence cannot be defined simply as a political issue but also as a pedagogical issue that wages violence against the minds,…

— Henry Giroux

Violence comes in many forms and can be particularly disturbing when confronted in an educational setting if handled dismissively or in ways…

— Henry Giroux

Marked by a virulent notion of hardness and aggressive masculinity, a culture of violence has become commonplace in a society in which…

— Henry Giroux

There is a need for educators, young people, artists and other cultural workers to develop an educative politics in which people can…

— Henry Giroux

As a mode of public pedagogy, a state of permanent war needs willing subjects to abide by its values, ideology, and narratives…

— Henry Giroux

The propensity to avoid moral considerations was producing not simply a politically illiterate and authoritarian society, but one that was increasingly saturated…

— Henry Giroux

Until educators, individuals, artists, intellectuals and various social movements address how the metaphysics of casino capitalism, war and violence have taken hold…

— Henry Giroux

In Quebec, in spite of police violence and threats, thousands of students demonstrated for months against a former right-wing government that wanted…

— Henry Giroux

Students being miseducated, criminalized and arrested through a form of penal pedagogy in prison-type schools provide a grim reminder of the degree…

— Henry Giroux

Widespread violence now functions as part of an anti-immune system that turns the economy of genuine pleasure into a mode of sadism…

— Henry Giroux

Under the interlocking regimes of neoliberal power, violence appears so arbitrary and thoughtless that it lacks the need for any justification, let…

— Henry Giroux

'American Sniper' is a film that erases history, spectacularizes violence, and reduces war and its aftermath to cheap entertainment, with an underexplained…

— Henry Giroux

The structures of neoliberal violence have put the vocabulary of democracy on life support, and one consequence is that subjectivity and education…

— Henry Giroux

In the United States the state monopoly on the use of violence has intensified since the 1980s, and in the process, has…

— Henry Giroux

The United States has become addicted to violence, and this dependency is fueled increasingly by its willingness to wage war at home…

— Henry Giroux

Marginalized youth, workers, artists and others are raising serious questions about the violence of inequality and the social order that legitimates it.…

— Henry Giroux

Unfortunately, we live at a moment in which ignorance appears to be one of the defining features of American political and cultural…

— Henry Giroux

Violence maims not only the body but also the mind and spirit. As Pierre Bourdieu has argued, it lies "on the side…

— Henry Giroux

Violence, with its ever-present economy of uncertainty, fear, and terror, is no longer merely a side effect of police brutality, war, or…

— Henry Giroux

The prevailing move in American society to a permanent war status does more than promote a set of unifying symbols that embrace…

— Henry Giroux

Remember what Hannah Arendt said when she was talking about fascism and totalitarianism. She said thoughtlessness is the essence of totalitarianism. So…

— Henry Giroux

Job insecurity, debt servitude, poverty, incarceration and a growing network of real and symbolic violence have entrapped too many young people in…

— Henry Giroux

The rise of casino capitalism and the punishing state with their vast apparatuses of real and symbolic violence must be also addressed…

— Henry Giroux

Capitalism, in my estimation, is not about democracy. I think we're beginning to see an understanding of this. We see it in…

— Henry Giroux

Against the tyranny of forgetting, educators, young people, social activists, public intellectuals, workers and others can work to make visible and oppose…

— Henry Giroux

A symptomatic example of the way in which violence has saturated everyday life can be seen in the increased acceptance of criminalizing…

— Henry Giroux

Confronting the intolerable should be challenging and upsetting. Who could read the testimonies of Primo Levi and not feel intellectually and emotionally…

— Henry Giroux