„Those who abjure violence can only do so by others committing violence on their behalf.“
— George Orwell English author and journalist 1903 - 1950
„We’ve got to show that if you say “yes I condemn terror – but the are inferior”, or “violence in London isn’t justified, but suicide bombs in Israel are a different matter” – then you too are part of the problem. Unwittingly or not, and in a lot of cases it’s not unwittingly, you are providing succour to those who want to commit, or get others to commit to, violence.“
2010s, 2015, Speech on extremism (20 July 2015)
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— Henry Giroux American academic 1943
Interview with Media For Us, 2019
— Thomas Friedman American journalist and author 1953
New York Times (6 January 2002) "Someone Tell the Kids".
— Henry M. Jackson American politician 1912 - 1983
" Henry “Scoop” Jackson for President 1972 Campaign Brochure http://www.4president.org/brochures/scoopjackson1972brochure.htm", 4President.org. Retrieved 07-02-2006.
— Jack Donovan American activist, editor and writer 1974
Violence is Golden
A Sky Without Eagles (2014)
— Harry Truman American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953) 1884 - 1972
Address at the National Archives dedicating a shrine for the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights (15 December 1952) https://trumanlibrary.org/calendar/viewpapers.php?pid=2102
Contexto: Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty. The external threat to liberty should not drive us into suppressing liberty at home. Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
All freedom-loving nations, not the United States alone, are facing a stern challenge from the Communist tyranny. In the circumstances, alarm is justified. The man who isn't alarmed simply doesn't understand the situation — or he is crazy. But alarm is one thing, and hysteria is another. Hysteria impels people to destroy the very thing they are struggling to preserve.
Invasion and conquest by Communist armies would be a horror beyond our capacity to imagine. But invasion and conquest by Communist ideas of right and wrong would be just as bad.
For us to embrace the methods and morals of communism in order to defeat Communist aggression would be a moral disaster worse than any physical catastrophe. If that should come to pass, then the Constitution and the Declaration would be utterly dead and what we are doing today would be the gloomiest burial in the history of the world.
— Sri Aurobindo Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru and poet 1872 - 1950
24 July 1909
India's Rebirth
„If you want peace, you won't get it with violence.“
— John Lennon English singer and songwriter 1940 - 1980
— Alex Jones American radio host, author, conspiracy theorist and filmmaker 1974
Alex Jones on Piers Morgan Tonight, CNN, 7 January 2013.
2013
— Édouard Louis French writer 1992
On how he wants to be perceived as a writer in “Édouard Louis: 'I want to be a writer of violence. The more you talk about it, the more you can undo it'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/09/edouard-louis-i-want-to-be-a-writer-of-violence-the-more-you-talk-about-it-the-more-you-can-undo-it in The Guardian (2018 Jun 9)
— Voltairine de Cleyre American anarchist writer and feminist 1866 - 1912
Direct Action (1912)
Contexto: Those who, by the essence of their belief, are committed to Direct Action only are — just who? Why, the non-resistants; precisely those who do not believe in violence at all! Now do not make the mistake of inferring that I say direct action means non-resistance; not by any means. Direct action may be the extreme of violence, or it may be as peaceful as the waters of the Brook of Siloa that go softly. What I say is, that the real non-resistants can believe in direct action only, never in political action. For the basis of all political action is coercion; even when the State does good things, it finally rests on a club, a gun, or a prison, for its power to carry them through.
— Jayalalithaa Indian politician and actress 1948 - 2016
Fuente: On Godhra train burning, It's a crime against humanity: Jayalalithaa http://hindu.com/2002/03/01/stories/2002030103151300.htm, 01 March 2002.
„There are a great many ways to commit suicide you know.“
— Stephen King, libro The Stand
The Stand (Uncut), Chapter 55 p. 799
The Stand (1978)
— Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Fuente: Magic Slays
— Warren Farrell, libro The Myth of Male Power
Fuente: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex, p. 221.
— Susan Sontag American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist 1933 - 2004
"Why Are We in Kosovo?", The New York Times (2 May 1999)
Contexto: Not surprisingly, the Serbs are presenting themselves as the victims. (Clinton equals Hitler, etc.) But it is grotesque to equate the casualties inflicted by the NATO bombing with the mayhem inflicted on hundreds of thousands of people in the last eight years by the Serb programs of ethnic cleansing.
Not all violence is equally reprehensible; not all wars are equally unjust.
No forceful response to the violence of a state against peoples who are nominally its own citizens? (Which is what most "wars" are today. Not wars between states.) The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders. Can we really say there is no response to this?
„You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.“
— Chuck Palahniuk, libro Diario: una novela
Fuente: Diary
