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“Are we not, ethically speaking, obligated to stop its (violence) further dissemination, to consider our role in instigating it, and to forment and cultivate another sense of a culturally and religiously diverse global political culture?”
― Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
― Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
“Those who commit acts of violence are surely responsible for them; they are not dupes or mechanisms of an impersonal social force, but agents with responsibility. On the other hand, these individuals are formed, and we would be making a mistake if we reduced their actions to purely self-generated acts of will or symptoms of individual pathology of 'evil'.”
― Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
― Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
“People have thoughts they'd sooner not have. It happens in life.”
― Dear Life
― Dear Life
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