Writing Quote by Zed Books

“The intellectual project of decolonizing has to set out ways to proceed through a colonizing world. It needs a radical compassion that reaches out,…

— Zed Books

Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.

— Amartya Sen

Here's the problem with downplaying the radical nature of decommodification: when you empty something of political content, politicians are free to wield symbols as…

— Ash Sarkar

“Violent revolution fails because it is not revolutionary enough. It changes the rulers but not the rules, the ends but not the means. Most…

— Walter Wink

I might take from the current political chaos a desire to somehow reflect its essential qualities in a story - the blatant lies that…

— George Saunders

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

— Paulo Freire

Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result…

— Janice Rogers Brown

“Extreme civilization robs crime of its frightful poetry, and prevents the writer from restoring it. That would be too dreadful, say those good souls…

— Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.

— Albert Einstein

Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from the discourse…

— Alan Keyes

“deconstruction is an attempt to break through hardened structures and traditions for the purpose of reengaging the stimulating, life-giving substance that gave rise to…

— J. R. Daniel Kirk

“When a long abuse of power is corrected, it is generally replaced by an opposite violence. In the new dispensation all that was good…

— John McGahern