Blood Quote by Walter Benjamin

Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.

— Anonymous

“Violent ideologies follow their own logic, the logic that sustains the system - a convoluted logic that unravels when it, itself, is labeled.”

— Melanie Joy

Mythologies are violent things, and to be true to them, you have to go to primal territory.

— Panos Cosmatos

All violence flows from the same source ... the need for power. Power is the only true morality ... the only deathless god, and…

— Dan Simmons

“The practice of non-violence requires a belief in divine vengeance.”

— Miroslav Volf

When the anger of the gods is incurred, wealth or power only bring more devastating punishment.

— Euripides

Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.

— Elbert Hubbard

No act loses us; no violence we're subjected to destroys us; no debasement chases out the divine, and no one can take the divine…

— Daniel Odier

Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.

— Marshall McLuhan

Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to…

— Hannah Arendt

Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in "justice" or in affirmation of "rights" or in defense of "peace" do not end violence. They…

— Wendell Berry