Emily

“Divine violence expiates; it releases from guilt. It operates not by the destruction of bodies but by the destruction of the systems of laws or ethics that declare an action to be right or wrong.”
― Ted Smith, Weird John Brown: Divine Violence and the Limits of Ethics

“[V]iolence against women is a key element in this new global war, not only because of the horror it evokes or the messages it sends but because of what women represent in their capacity to keep their communities together and, equally important, to defend noncommercial conceptions of security and wealth.”
― Silvia Federici, Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

“Utopian desires all too quickly become just another tempting commodity.”
― Cindy Milstein, Paths toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism

“If the state is just the accumulated results of past conflicts, and if preservation of the state becomes the end that grounds necessity, then the fact of violence becomes a kind of law, and the law, grounded in the need to preserve what fate has established, blurs into the fact of organized violence”
― Ted Smith, Weird John Brown: Divine Violence and the Limits of Ethics