Quote by J.D. Robb

“By calling in the Vigilantes, we are asking them to do what we can’t or won’t do ourselves.”

— Fern Michaels

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

— Walter Wink

“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

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

— Bryant McGill

“The system wears a mask of civility, yet will quickly reveal its true nature in the form of magnificently-purposed violence when needed.”

— Bryant McGill

“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

“When you’re violent you undermine everything.”

— Chris Hedges

“Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.”

— Thomas Sowell

“Generally speaking, by the way, that is the moral of the opponents of violence in politics: they renounce violence when it comes to introducing…

— Leon Trotsky

“This should remind us that violence is first of all authoritarian. It begins with this premise: I have the right to control you.”

— Rebecca Solnit

“Crime is a rigid, unbending master, against whom no one can be strong except by total rebellion”

— Alessandro Manzoni