Civility Quote by Bryant McGill

“Now we see the violence inherent in the system!”

— Python Monty

“Violence is the power of the state; imagination and non-violence the power of civil society.”

— Rebecca Solnit

“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

“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

“I have reason to believe vigilantes grow to like their work. That power, unchecked, will corrupt its own agenda. That violence, given impunity and…

— J.D. Robb

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

— Patricia Dsouza

“When men in power decide that things need to be rebalanced at any cost, the violence is never brief and never really directed solely…

— Dean Koontz

“For the earth is filled with violence, and every living thing has lost its way.”

— Naomi Alderman

“People construct a public face in order to deal with the conflicts that rage inside them.”

— John Yorke

“We live in dramatic times. Violent confrontations are erupting in all parts of the world. Instinctively we feel that it does not have to…

— Dominique De Menil

“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

“in the epoch of representation, assault rules. The regime of representation produces violence.”

— Barbara Bolt