Wendell Berry Quotes About Violence

Quotes about: Violence

• Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life.

  Wendell Berry

  Dream, Love You, Live Your Life

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

• To think better, to think like the best humans, we are probably going to have to learn again to judge a person's intelligence, not by the ability to recite facts, but by the good order or harmoniousness of his or her surroundings. We must suspect that any statistical justification of ugliness and violence is a revelation of stupidity. (pg.192-193, People, Land, and Community)

  Wendell Berry

  Thinking, Order, Land

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.192, Counterpoint

• Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in "justice" or in affirmation of "rights" or in defense of "peace" do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.

  Wendell Berry

  Rights, Justice, Defense

  "The Failure of War" by Wendell Berry, www.yesmagazine.org. November 5, 2001.

• We have become blind to the alternatives to violence.

  Wendell Berry

  Alternatives, Violence, Blind

  Wendell Berry (2012). “The Long-Legged House”, p.79, Counterpoint Press

• What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being.

  Wendell Berry

  Violence, States, Active

  Wendell Berry (2004). “Citizenship Papers: Essays”, p.32, Counterpoint Press

• When you have large-scale legitimated violence in a place that is divided as profoundly and bitterly as Kentucky was, the legitimate violence can cause illegitimate violence, a terrible local heartlessness and cruelty that feeds on itself and goes on and on.

  Wendell Berry

  Kentucky, Violence, Causes

  Source: www.neh.gov

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