Crime Quote by Niall Ferguson

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

— Bryant McGill

“The history of humanity is, to a very great extent, a history of violence.”

— David Livingstone Smith

“Human hierarchies of any kind, they understood, would do little more than oppress all of humanity. But”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“So many wars have been fought and so much injustice has been perpetrated because we've banished others from our group and therefore our circle…

— Dalai Lama XIV, Desmond Tutu, Douglas Abrams

“The more polarized the gender roles, the more violent the society. The less polarized the gender roles, the more peaceful the society.”

— Gloria Steinem

“For the earth is filled with violence, and every living thing has lost its way.”

— Naomi Alderman

“Among the privileges of being a superpower, the right and the ability to make a local quarrel into a global one ranks very high.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“And so you have more opportunities and more responsibilities than any other generation in history.”

— Mark Kurlansky

“for a society built on exploitation, there is no greater threat than having no one left to oppress.”

— N.K. Jemisin

“most of human history (chronologically speaking) has taken place in communities quite innocent of state power.”

— David Christian

“If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.”

— Henry Kissinger

“It is always dangerous to view our collective lives without the benefit of history or without regard to diversity among us.”

— Rebekah Nathan