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“It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act.”

Political Individual Violence Crime Bottom Injustice Organized Indignation Offenders Organized Crime

Author:Emma Goldman

“We set ourselves the ultimate aim of abolishing the state, i.e., all organized and systematic violence, all use of violence against people in general.”

People States Use Violence Ultimate Aim Organized Systematic

Book:Essential Works of Lenin:

Source: Essential Works of Lenin:

“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.”

War States Order Natural Violence Conditions Instruments Organized Treatment Behalf Avoided Hygiene Pathology

Author:Philip Bobbitt

“If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise of everyday violence which people have become accustomed to, and the dehumanization of feelings, then the ultimate development on an organized social level is the concentration camp... The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.”

“Now, for the moment, we are safe. The only kind of international violence that worries most people in the developed countries is terrorism: from imminent heart attack to a bad case of hangnail in fifteen years flat. We are very lucky people--but we need to use the time we have been granted wisely, because total war is only sleeping. All the major states are still organized for war, and all that is needed for the world to slide back into a nuclear confrontation is a twist of the kaleidoscope that shifts international relations into a new pattern of rival alliances.”

“It ought to concern every person, because it is a debasement of our common humanity. It ought to concern every community, because it tears at our social fabric. It ought to concern every business, because it distorts markets. It ought to concern every nation, because it endangers public health and fuels violence and organized crime. I’m talking about the injustice, the outrage, of human trafficking, which must be called by its true name - modern slavery.”

“The rumors of Frank Sinatras violence and his ties to organized crime were such that journalists joked in print about me ending up in concrete boots and sleeping with the fishes if I proceeded to write his biography.”

Ifs Writing Sleep Violence Crime Fishes Journalist Ties Organized Print Boots Concrete Frank Biographies Rumor Organized Crime

Author:Kitty Kelley

“Increasingly gang violence and organized crime, together with climate change-driven natural disasters, are displacing more people as wars are fewer on the continent and political violence has decreased considerably, the NRC has decided to treat this as a humanitarian crisis.”

“A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.”

Different Violence Civilization Organized Nonviolence

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Interesting. You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries, but you imprison those who employ it privately.”

People Earth Interesting Violence Century Organized Glorify Illogical Mr Spock

Author:Leonard Nimoy

“The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to pure democracy. Power based on love is thousand times more effective and permanent than power derived from fear of punishment. It is a blasphemy to say non-violence can be practiced only by individuals and never by nations which are composed of individuals. The nearest approach to purest anarchy would be a democracy based on non-violence. A society organized and run on the basis of complete non-violence would be the purest anarchy.”

War Would Be Running Individual Nations Simple Love Is Democracy Violence Thousand Pure Approach Bases Punishment Permanent Organized Anarchy Dictatorship Non Violence Blasphemy

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“There`s actually some fluidity here in the United States. Using local intelligence against [terrorism].But you still have to infiltrate these groups. You still have to collect intelligence as you see fit. And they are organized. They are very well organized in the anti-abortion movement. Ideologically, they`re almost the same. And that`s where we see these spurts of violence.”

Wells Stills States United United States Violence Groups Movement Fit Terrorism Locals Organized Abortion Fluidity Anti Abortion

Author:Malcolm Wrightson Nance

“The U.S. directed the war against South Vietnam. There was a political settlement in 1954. But in the late '50's the United States organized an internal repression in South Vietnam, not using its troops, but using the local apparatus it was constructing. This was a very significant and very effective campaign of violence and terrorism against the Vietminh - which was the communist-led nationalist force that fought the French. And the Vietminh at that time was adhering to the Geneva Accords, hoping that the political settlement would work out in South Vietnam.”

“Violence from protesters themselves is extremely rare, but has been made into a talking point by those who stand to benefit from breaking the perceived legitimacy of organized protest and resistance. Organized, disciplined nonviolent resistance is alive and well, and we see it all around us in cities across the country.”

Wells Has Beens Made Country Cities Talking Alive Violence Benefits Resistance Organized Protest Legitimacy Nonviolent Resistance

Author:Nate Powell