America Quote by Don DeLillo

Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.

— Vandana Shiva

“Violent consumption demands violent production.”

— Bryant McGill

“Violence is a means of bargaining and signalling value within the marketplace.”

— Alex de Waal

“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

“Violence takes on many forms, sadly violence is such an everyday part of our lives that we have mostly become oblivious to it. It…

— Mango Wodzak

Violence must be inflicted once for all; people will then forget what it tastes like and so be less resentful. Benefits must be conferred…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Violence recoils on the violent.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

What we vision we guide as violence

— Anonymous

Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.

— Steven Pinker

Obsession with a consumerist lifestyle, above all when few people are capable of maintaining it, can only lead to violence and mutual destruction.

— Pope Francis

Violence in our society has reached epidemic proportions. ... Violence in the media for entertainment purposes has been established as a major contributing factor.

— Deborah Prothrow-Stith