Government Quote by Jacques Rancière

The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried…

— Thomas Merton

“I believe that sanitizing this aspect of the modern and ancient world is at the root of our troubles as a culture now. We're…

— Tamora Pierce

Violence is not inevitable. I mean, the only inevitable form of violence is the kind that we understand, the only legitimate (if there can…

— Gloria Steinem

“Violence only begets violence when we allow it to. We always have a choice.”

— P.T. Denys

To help break the cycle of domestic violence, we must allow survivors to take time off from work without fear of losing their job,…

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

“Max Weber, who we met in the previous chapter, provided the most famous and widely accepted definition of the state, identifying it with the…

— Daron Acemoğlu

When you have large-scale legitimated violence in a place that is divided as profoundly and bitterly as Kentucky was, the legitimate violence can cause…

— Wendell Berry

“Self-defense is a universal exception to the state’s monopoly on legitimate violence. State failure drives the self-defense doctrine through the imminence requirement. Private violence…

— Nicholas Johnson

Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare,…

— Tom DeLay

Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by…

— Vladimir Lenin

“Here, need blurs the line between good and bad, and a constant promise of random violence sticks like humidity down your back.”

— Miguel Syjuco

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.

— Nicolas Gomez Davila