“All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.” MeanStruggleViolenceAchieveInstrumentsDemocratic Author:Osman Baydemir
“War is not a pathology that, with proper hygiene and treatment, can be wholly prevented. War is a natural condition of the State, which was organized in order to be an effective instrument of violence on behalf of society. Wars are like deaths, which, while they can be postponed, will come when they will come and cannot be finally avoided.” WarStatesOrderNaturalViolenceConditionsInstrumentsOrganizedTreatmentBehalfAvoidedHygienePathology Author:Philip Bobbitt
“Violence or the threat of violence [must] never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline.” MenDoeHas BeensReasonActionTimeCommunityViolenceInfluenceDisciplineJudgmentInstrumentsThreatUniversityDefinitionsCeasePrimariesExpulsion Author:Richard M. Nixon
“If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way.” IfsWayGivingGodShowsEarthViolencePureGive MeInstrumentsSpreadAwfulNonviolenceShow MeRulingHold MeGive Me Strength Book:Gandhi's Beads of Wisdow: A Synopsis of Gandhiji's Utterances on Truth and Non-violence Source: Gandhi's Beads of Wisdow: A Synopsis of Gandhiji's Utterances on Truth and Non-violence
“Each of these failures for me is a failure of communication, via a mode of communication that can be violent or meant to behave violently. Butler provides a way of thinking about how language becomes an instrument of violence. And why we feel it as such.” ThinkingWayFeelsLanguageViolenceCommunicationInstrumentsViolentBehaveMeant To BeWay Of ThinkingButlers Author:Claudia Rankine