Political Violence Quotes

• Me opongo a la violencia porque cuando parece hacer el bien, el bien es sólo temporal; el mal que hace es permanente.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspiración, Paz, Guerra

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). "Gandhi: Selected Political Writings", p.43, Hackett Publishing

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• Quienes hacen imposible la revolución pacífica harán inevitable la revolución violenta.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspiración, Paz, Libertad

  Discurso en el primer aniversario de la Alianza para el Progreso, 13 mar. 1962

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• La no violencia es la respuesta a las cuestiones políticas y morales cruciales de nuestro tiempo: la necesidad de que el hombre supere la opresión y la violencia sin recurrir a la opresión y la violencia. El hombre debe desarrollar para todos los conflictos humanos un método que rechace la venganza, la agresión y la represalia. El fundamento de tal método es el amor.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Revenge, Men

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). "The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings", p.115, Beacon Press.

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• La no violencia es la respuesta a las cuestiones morales políticas cruciales de nuestro tiempo.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Paz, Política, Fundación del Amor

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). "The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings", p.115, Beacon Press.

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• When we use the word domestic [terrorism], we discount its actual impact as political terrorism, which is, of course, political violence meant to impact an audience outside of the immediate victims.

  Malcolm Wrightson Nance

  Impact, Political, Use

  Fuente: www.msnbc.com

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• La verdadera tarea política en una sociedad como la nuestra es criticar el funcionamiento de las instituciones que aparentan ser neutrales e independientes, criticarlas y atacarlas de tal manera que se desenmascare la violencia política que siempre se ha ejercido oscuramente a través de ellas, para poder luchar contra ellas.

  Michel Foucault

  Real, Independiente, Luchador

  Noam Chomsky Michel Foucault (2006). "El debate Chomsky - Foucault: Sobre la naturaleza humana", p.41, The New Press

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• It seems to me that the real political task in a society such as ours is to criticise the workings of institutions, which appear to be both neutral and independent; to criticise and attack them in such a manner that the political violence which has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them.

  Michel Foucault

  Real, Independiente, Luchador

  Fuente: www.nicklewis.org

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• Looked at objectively, it is clear that the overwhelming majority of civilian deaths resulting from political violence are produced by what should be understood as "state terror." Terrorism also serves as an excuse to avoid diplomacy and the peaceful resolution of conflict.

  Richard A. Falk

  Political, Peaceful, Majority

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• The piled-up dead of political violence are a generic staple of our information diet these days, and according to the generic report all massacres are created equal: the dead are innocent, the killers monstrous, the surrounding politics insane or nonexistent...The anonymous dead and their anonymous killers become their own context. The horror becomes absurd.

  Philip Gourevitch

  Political, Insane, Information

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• Murieron más personas a consecuencia del minúsculo y abortado Levantamiento de Pascua contra el dominio británico en Irlanda (1916) que a consecuencia de la violencia política en Alemania durante toda la revolución nacionalsocialista.

  Adolf Hitler

  Easter, Uprising, People

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• El aumento de la violencia de las bandas y la delincuencia organizada, junto con las catástrofes naturales provocadas por el cambio climático, están desplazando a más personas, ya que las guerras son menos numerosas en el continente y la violencia política ha disminuido considerablemente.

  Jan Egeland

  Cambio, Guerra, Gente

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• It was a step forward to charge Pinochet with terrorism, and to acknowledge that the essence of the crime is the use of political violence to induce great fear in society and against those who are innocent, and not just such violence that is directed against the state by opposition groups.

  Richard A. Falk

  Essence, Political, Violence

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that.

  John Hume

  Grateful, Opportunity, Differences

  "Campeón irlandés de los derechos civiles". Entrevista de la Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. 8 de junio de 2002.

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• In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the New Left.

  Marisha Pessl

  Army, College, Political

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• I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20.

  Neil Jordan

  Mean, Years, Issues

  Interview with with Michael Koresky, reverseshot.org. November 10, 2005.

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