Consciousness Quote by Henry Giroux

Although police terrorism plays a specific role on behalf of the state, it is not the totality of what state violence looks like or…

— Alicia Garza

At the meeting I argued that the state had given us no alternative to violence. I said it was wrong and immoral to subject…

— Nelson Mandela

“The state is a voluntary association of individuals designed to serve their individual interests. The state is not a faceless villain. The state is…

— Robert Peate

The state is the institutional manifestation of violence.

— Javier Milei

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

— Henry Giroux

States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power

— Noam Chomsky

States have invested themselves with the right to legitimise violence - so who gets criminalised and delegitimised? Only - or well that's excessive -…

— Arundhati Roy

The challenges that young people are mobilizing against oppressive societies all over the globe are being met with a state-sponsored violence that is about…

— Henry Giroux

Everything done by the state is ultimately done by means of aggression, which is to say violence or the threat of violence against the…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

All nonstate threats to life, liberty, and property appear to be relatively petty and therefore can be dealt with. Only states can pose truly…

— Robert Higgs

“One of the most damaging, longest-lasting consequences of the War on Terror years is an utter obliteration of the obvious moral case for nonviolence.…

— Omar El Akkad

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

— Henry Giroux