“I remember the 70s constantly being winter in Manchester and the Irish community in Manchester closing ranks because of the IRA bombings in Birmingham and Manchester, and you know the bin-workers' strike, all wrapped up in it... They were violent times. Violence at home and violence at football matches.” KnowsHomeRememberCommunityViolenceFootballWorkersWinterStrikesViolentClosingBombingManchesterBirminghamIraFootball Match Author:Noel Gallagher
“The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.” ArtWarHardEnoughMovingFightingPeaceSimpleEnemyViolenceMilitaryStrikesCivil WarGrantsArt Of WarKeep MovingGreat WarNavalGreat MilitaryUnited States MilitaryViolence And War Author:Ulysses S. Grant
“I myself am a very, very peaceful person. Throughout our history, from our own American revolution to the resistance against apartheid in South Africa, to labor strikes in the US, people have resorted to violence to achieve a more progressive society, from time to time.” PeoplePersonsViolenceAchieveRevolutionLaborSouthStrikesResistancePeacefulProgressiveSouth AfricaAmerican RevolutionApartheidProgressive Society Author:Tom Morello
“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.” CertainEnemyViolenceActivityEssentialsDegreesMassCrisisStrikesScalesResistanceCombinationRevolutionaryCampsProvokingLarge Scale Author:Joe Slovo
“For most Northerners, Texas is the home of real men. The cowboys, the rednecks, the outspoken self-made right-wing millionaires strike us as either the best or worst examples of American manliness.... The ideal is not an illusion nor is it contemptible, no matter what damage it may have done. Many people who scorn it in conversation want to submit to it in bed. Those who believe machismo reeks of violence alone choose to forget it once stood for honor as well.” PeopleMenWantBelieveWellsMayMadeRealSelfMatterDoneHomeForgetViolenceWorstExampleHonorBedConversationIllusionIdealsNo Matter WhatWingsStrikesDamageTexasSubmitCowboyScornForget ItMillionaireRight WingRedneckReal MenSelf MadeOutspokenManlinessMachismoNortherners Author:Edmund White
“Research has convincingly demonstrated that using the "rod" creates children who are not more obedient but who are instead simplymore angry and aggressive than other kids. Parents who routinely slap or strike their children are actually handing them a model of violence to imitate--and many do indeed grow to be abusive, some even murderously so.” ChildrenKidsGrowsParentViolenceDisciplineModelsResearchAngryStrikesAggressiveObedientSlapAbusive Author:Julius Segal
“Revenge tries to solve the problem of vulnerability. If I strike back, I transfer vulnerability from myself to the other. And yet by striking back I produce a world in which my vulnerability to injury is increased by the likelihood of another strike. So it seems as if I'm getting rid of my vulnerability and instead locating it with the other, but actually I'm heightening the vulnerability of everyone and I'm heightening the possibility of violence that happens between us.” IfsWorldTryingProblemSeemsHappensViolencePossibilityProduceSolveRevengeStrikesVulnerabilityInjuryTransfersLikelihoodStrike Back Author:Judith Butler
“In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.” StatesActionOrderCoursesViolenceOffersWeakInternationalBlowProtectionStrikesChosenRegimesAtrocitiesPredatoryKosovo Author:Noam Chomsky
“Violence among all people is based on dissatisfaction, frustration and crushed ambition and people who don't know who to strike at and who to blame, and not willing to blame themselves.” PeopleKnowsViolenceWillingAmbitionBlameStrikesFrustrationCrushedDissatisfaction Author:John Henrik Clarke