Capital punishment Quote by Lawrence Joseph

“The violence of hierarchy is the violence that the powerful use against the dispossessed to keep them subordinated. As an example, the violence committed…

— Lierre Keith

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

— Rebecca Solnit

Violence is part of everybody's life, whether you like or express it or not. My work utilises all the energies that I have, and…

— Cornelia Parker

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

— Henri Nouwen

We all have violence inside of us, but we try to channel it into what we do.

— Max Cavalera

What we vision we guide as violence

— Anonymous

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

— Vandana Shiva

As a child I perceived violence as a sort of natural law. In the totalitarian Soviet Union, oppression held everything together. It was the…

— Vladimir Sorokin

See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.

— Noam Chomsky

We live in a world which respects power above all things. Power, intelligently directed, can lead to more freedom. Unwisely directed, it can be…

— Mary McLeod Bethune

“This violence, as a process, is perpetuated from generation to generation of oppressors, who become its heirs and are shaped by it.”

— Paulo Freire

“Structural violence is visited upon all those whose social status denies them access to the fruits of scientific and social progress.”

— van Dernoot Lipsky, Laura