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“We are going to see a great number of articles in the future from so-called experts and public officials. They will warn about more violence, more kidnappings, and more terrorists. Mass media, the armed forces, and intelligence agencies will saturate our lives with fascist scare tactics and 'predictions' that have already been planned to come true.”

“We must not depict socialism as if socialists will bring it to us on a plate all nicely dressed. That will never happen. Not a single problem of the class struggle has ever been solved in history except by violence. When violence is exercised by the working people, by the mass of exploited against the exploiters -- then we are for it!”

People Ifs Problem Happens Class Struggle Violence Mass Socialism Plates Class Struggle

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“The violence that we had in the 60's was limited. The next time it will be unlimited because the violence in the 60's was a struggle for human dignity and for human rights. The next struggle will be a struggle for survival and it will not just be limited to Black people or Black against white, but it will be the poor people, the masses of the people of the country, struggling for the right to live or the right to survive.”

“Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on acquisitiveness, and to identify themselves in some real fashion with the struggle of the masses toward the light, may help in a measure - more, doubtless, by life than by words - to devise a more excellent way, a technique of social progress less crude, brutal, costly and slow than mankind has yet evolved.”

Way May Real Helping Light Social Wealth Struggle Progress Violence Mankind Fashion Position Mass Technique Excellent Brutal Crude Renounce Social Progress Social Systems Premium

Author:A. J. Muste

“The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders.”

World Government Today Violence Mass Committed Instance Borders Principal World Today

Author:Susan Sontag

“Only with gun violence do we respond to repeated tragedies by saying that mourning is acceptable but discussing how to prevent more tragedies is not. But that's unacceptable. As others have observed, talking about how to stop mass shootings in the aftermath of a string of mass shootings isn't 'too soon.' It's much too late.”

Talking Violence Late Mass Gun Tragedy Shooting Mourning Too Late Strings Acceptable Discussing Aftermath Gun Violence Mass Shootings

Author:Ezra Klein

“However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy's camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes.”

Certain Enemy Violence Activity Essentials Degrees Mass Crisis Strikes Scales Resistance Combination Revolutionary Camps Provoking Large Scale

Author:Joe Slovo

“We Americans are not an inherently more violent people than folks in other countries. We're not inherently more prone to mental health problems. The main difference that sets our nation apart is what makes us so susceptible to so many mass shootings is that we don't do enough, we don't take the basic commonsense actions to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people. What's different in America is it's easy to get your hands on a gun.”

“In their overestimation of the role of civilization, the humanists misunderstand the primary forces of the world of primitive human drives with their untamable violence. With their optimistic view of the role of culture, they (the humanists) trivialize the terrifying, hardly solvable problems of mass hatred and of the great passionate psychoses of the human race.”

World Humans Problem Hate Humanity Culture Force Views Race Roles Violence Civilization Mass Hatred Passionate Optimistic Primaries Human Race Primitive Psychosis Great Passion

Author:Stefan Zweig

“Dunbar-Ortiz strips us of our forged innocence, shocks us into new awareness, and draws a straight line from the sins of our fathers-settler-colonialism, the doctrine of discovery, the myth of manifest destiny, white supremacy, theft and systematic killing-to the contemporary condition of permanent war, invasion and occupation, mass incarceration, and the constant use and threat of state violence.”

“An end to wars, peace among the nations, the cessation of pillaging and violence - such is our ideal, but only bourgeois sophists can seduce the masses with this ideal, if the latter is divorced from a direct and immediate call for revolutionary action.”

Ifs War Ends Action Nations Violence Mass Ideals Direct Revolutionary Latter Divorced Bourgeois Peace War Seducing Pillaging

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“Till the sun of knowledge shines on the ignorant masses and till all the men start hating violence, the world shall find no peace!”

Men World Hate Peace Sun Violence He Man Mass Shining Ignorant Shine On Ignorant Masses

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses.”

Mean Successful Violence Revolution Mass Misery Bloody

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder?”

Realizing Violence Mass Murder

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.”

Source: The Anatomy of Fascism

“During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.”

Cities Violence Childhood Media Mass Newspapers Advertising Unpredictable 1960s Circulation Shanghai Portents

Author:J. G. Ballard

“Terrifying mass shooting and high-profile officer-involved incidents have dominated the national conversation on gun violence in recent years. But most deaths by gun are not headline-grabbing massacres. They`re more private, more intimate, and perhaps in that way, even more horrifying. Domestic violence, make no mistake, domestic violence is a gun issue.”

“When the masses begin to vibrate with an energy of love, the world will no longer be a container for war, violence, and lies.”

World War Lying Energy Violence Mass Vibrate Containers

Author:Gabrielle Bernstein