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Quotes from The Failure of Nonviolence — Peter Gelderloos

born 1982 United States

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Governments are by their nature aggressive and dominating. No society is safe if its neighbor is a state.

The Failure of Nonviolence (2013)

The goal of our criticism should be solidarity, not homogeneity.

The Failure of Nonviolence (2013)

Freedom as a concept sides with those who are struggling for theirs, whereas nonviolence as a concept sides with the enforcers of normality and the rulers of the status quo.

The Failure of Nonviolence (2013)

Democracy requires social peace, the illusion that, in a society based on exploitation and domination, everyone can get along and nobody's fundamental well-being is under threat.

The Failure of Nonviolence (2013)

Governments can be democratic or not, more or less corrupt, but they will still pursue the same basic goals, and they will still be controlled by an elite. Government by its very nature concentrates power and excludes people from making decisions over their own lives.

The Failure of Nonviolence (2013)

We can never know whether our analysis and our methods are wrong, except sometimes with hindsight. Our movements are stronger when they employ diverse methods and analyses and these different positions criticize one another.

The Failure of Nonviolence (2013)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Peter Gelderloos (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.