Acts of violence Quote by Bryan Sykes

“Violence is a primitive but still very widespread way in which the ego attempts to assert itself, to prove itself right and another wrong.”

— Eckhart Tolle

“Violence is a tool. It is meant to shock. To change. Instead, they normalize and celebrate it. And create a culture of exploitation.”

— Pierce Brown

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

— Bryant McGill

“There are very subtle shades of violence, I can assure you. A civilization that renounces the possibility of resorting to violence in thought or…

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

“Violence is compelling and ineffective, it can be ascertained, as one becomes an expert at it.”

— Patricia Dsouza

“These are people who take up mass violence as a personal assertion or political statement to compensate for their own hopelessness, pathos, failure, and/or…

— John E. Douglas

“Unfortunately, violence has a way of overpowering even the strongest of wills”

— Kenneth Eade

“We also self-inflict violence, because violence is our only way of relating to the world, to others and to ourselves.”

— Bryant McGill

“Violence is already active here; it is built into the very structure od the existing society. If we seek a world in which men…

— Barbara Deming

“And the gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it.”

— Richard Siken

“At a time in our culture when violence was achieving a new legitimacy as a form of public assertion, there was perhaps a special…

— Diana Trilling

“There are people that are convinced of the wickedness both of armies and of police forces, but who are nevertheless much more intolerant and…

— George Orwell