David Draiman Quotes

If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either homicide or warfare or both. Anarchy is one of the main reasons for violence, and it may be the most important.

I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half.

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other.

The idea that democracies never make war on each other rests on very thin historical ice.

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Exploitation and government are two inseparable expressions of what is called politics.

We seek a logical understanding of mass violence, but war and civil strife rarely explode because of rational grievances. Complaints about oppression, poverty or injustice may serve as superficial catalysts, but few wars can be traced to objective decision-making by the dispassionate leaders of cool-headed populations. War is an act of passion, not of policy.

Bloodletting is among the ingredients of political medicine.

Guys like the Monarch are not unique, and there are guys like him all over the world torturing dumb scientists.

Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.

Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.

It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control.

We've been at peace about as long as e were at war.

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

The world today is anything but trouble-free.

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations.

Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.

But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.

The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.

The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.