Quotes About Structural Violence

#1. Bureaucracies, I've suggested, are not themselves forms of stupidity so much as they are ways of organizing stupidity
of managing relationships that are already characterized by extremely unequal structures of imagination, which exist because of the existence of structural violence.

David Graeber

#2. Sumer had devised the system of structural violence that would prevail in every single agrarian state until the modern period, when agriculture ceased to be the economic basis of civilization.

Karen Armstrong

#3. "So I've got to find a mountiain that nobody's ever seen. And work out the answer to a riddle that nobody's ever solved. And kill a bear that nobody can fight."
Renn sucked in her breath. "You've go to try."

Michelle Paver

#4. The minute you become something they don't want to look at, they stop looking at you. It's that simple. You join the void. That much I'm sure of."

Ford, G.M. (2012-07-17). Who In Hell Is Wanda Fuca? (A Leo Waterman Mystery) (Kindle Locations 2431-2432). AmazonEncore. Kindle Edition.

G.M. Ford

#5. Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so.

Bobby Rush

#6. If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.

Octavio Paz

#7. I think that creative people, wherever they are, in any field, take inspiration wherever they can find it.

Simon De Pury

#8. I think' she said, choosing her words with care, ; that any good impulse can be twisted into something evil.

Cassandra Clare

#9. Once you connect with your mind, you are who you are and you're free.

Natalie Goldberg

#10. The Queen of Monsea, in trousers and short hair, looking for all the world like a miniature pirate.

Kristin Cashore

#11. A German goldsmith covered a bit of metal with cloth in the 14th century and gave mankind its first button. It was hard to know this as politics, because it plays like the work of one person, but nothing is isolated in history
certain humans are situations.

Lyn Hejinian

#12. Ghosts are a metaphor that can be interpreted so many different ways. There's no ending to what you can do. You can make it a fun ghost story. You can make it a deeply disturbing, psychological ghost story.

Guillermo Del Toro

#13. Many artists have not been able to realise their fondest projects. My role is to help them.

Hans Ulrich Obrist

#14. Anyway, I think the two of you should be free to do whatever you want right now. When you're young, you think the only way to happiness is the hard road... but it's actually much simpler than that.

Inio Asano

#15. Joy is realized as the natural by-product of the
passionate pursuit of something other than
happiness.

Marc Gafni