Law enforcement Quote by Gary A. Haugen

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

— Patricia Dsouza

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

— Rebecca Solnit

“Governments are committed to preserving the myth of their monopoly on violence. Violence belongs to everyone.”

— Bryant McGill

“Unjust systems perpetuate themselves by means of institutionalized violence.”

— Walter Wink

“Keeping a monopoly on legitimate violence is still the proven best way to limit violence and allow reason some asylum where it can be…

— Jacques Rancière

“Violence cannot remove violence... Violence breeds more violence and hate.”

— Jeffrey A. White

Today in many places we hear a call for greater security. But until exclusion and inequality in society and between peoples is reversed, it…

— Pope Francis

“The notion that you can somehow defeat violence by submitting to it is simply a flight from fact. As I have said, it is…

— George Orwell

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

— Henry Giroux

“People can talk tough without having to do the primitive math of violence, because they believe that law enforcement will either intervene and stop…

— Jack Donovan

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

— Pope John Paul II

“The control of violence is the most important dilemma every society faces.”

— James Dale Davidson