“What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.” ViolencePromiseDebtMathPerversion Book:Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years Source: Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years
“Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things - once the cloak of deceits is stripped away, this one truth is revealed.” ReasonFactsCareJusticeCompassionViolencePromiseTruth IsDeedsDeceitCloaksAbnegation Author:Steven Erikson
“Spirituality now wanders from sex to drugs to art to revolution to violence--whatever seems to promise deliverance from the quotidian.” ArtSeemsSpiritualitySexViolenceRevolutionPromiseDrugWanderDeliverance Author:Mason Cooley
“Around the world, human traffickers trick many people into slavery by false promises of good jobs or good education, only to find themselves forced to work without pay, under the threat of violence.” PeopleWorldHumansJobsPayViolencePromiseSlaveryThreatTricksAround The WorldGood JobGood EducationFalse Promises Author:Lisa Kristine
“I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.” KindAmericaViolencePromiseResponseContemporaryConsumersFulfilmentSardonic Book:White Noise: Text and Criticism Source: White Noise: Text and Criticism
“Nobody was talking about illegal immigration when Donald Trump entered this campaign. He was attacked from day one for putting the whole issue of the violence that is derived from certain individuals that come into this country illegally on the table. . . He is hearing from all sides. But I promise you, he is a decisive leader. He will stand on the principles that have underpinned his commitment to end illegal immigration in this country. And that's what people will learn more about in the days ahead.” PeopleEndsCountryWholeCertainIndividualSidesTalkingLeaderPrinciplesIssuesViolenceTrumpPromiseCommitmentTablesHearingCampaignsImmigrationIllegalI PromiseIllegal Immigration Author:Mike Pence