If nonviolence is to make sense as an ethical and political position, it cannot simply repress aggression or do away with its reality; rather, nonviolence emerges as a meaningful concept precisely when destruction is most likely or seems most certain.

— Judith Butler The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind (2020)

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