Consumption Quote by Vandana Shiva

“Violent consumption demands violent production.”

— Bryant McGill

I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.

— Don DeLillo

“Violence is a means of bargaining and signalling value within the marketplace.”

— Alex de Waal

Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.

— Steven Pinker

We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.

— Norman Lear

In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible…

— Carroll Quigley

Violence must be inflicted once for all; people will then forget what it tastes like and so be less resentful. Benefits must be conferred…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

As a nation, this is the moment to start seriously investing our time, energy and resources into proven methods of reducing violence, both within…

— Joaquin Phoenix

We try to show that violence has a consequence - when you create violence, it turns against you.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

There's an economy of violence. It's sexy. It's being exploited.

— Rhymefest

Violence recoils on the violent.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“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