Social progress Quote by van Dernoot Lipsky, Laura

“Violence is compelling and ineffective, it can be ascertained, as one becomes an expert at it.”

— Patricia Dsouza

“Violence is a primitive but still very widespread way in which the ego attempts to assert itself, to prove itself right and another wrong.”

— Eckhart Tolle

“Violence solves what tolerance does not.”

— Jeremy Yong

“Violence is the method of ignorance, the weapon of the weak. The strong of heart and brain need no violence, for they are irresistible…

— Alexander Berkman

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

— Paulo Freire

“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

“Violence and strength are the same thing. In all the history of all the worlds before this one, and in all the history of…

— Scott Sigler

“Violence is avoided, when we sit down with others, and discuss issues, and work together for solutions.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

“So holding many factors constant, we find that living in a civilization reduces one’s chances of being a victim of violence fivefold.”

— Steven Pinker

“It is a weary lament to lay most acts of violence and aggression, from the strictly local to the truly global, squarely at the…

— Bryan Sykes

“No solution will be found by accepting powerlessness or poverty as inevitable, irreplaceable social features. The failure of the system to answer the issues…

— Louis D. Lo Praeste

“One example of systematic oppression is structural violence. This concept was introduced in the 1970s by Johan Galtung, a pioneering Norwegian researcher in peace…

— Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky