Mark Bray Quotes

Post-apocalyptic novels tell you that in the future there is some great war. I would tell you that most cops say that it's going on right now.

Today, we talk a lot about terrorism, but we rarely talk about state terrorism.

The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups.

Although police terrorism plays a specific role on behalf of the state, it is not the totality of what state violence looks like or feels like in our communities.

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.

We are in a state of emergency. Here in Texas, we are not afraid of ISIS. We are afraid of the police.

Violence of the state is sublimated—it takes a very dull form.

… official and unofficial terrorism. Official terrorism - which is the more dangerous - consists of all acts that are supported by an internationally recognized quarter or State, whether by the army of that State or individual elements or in the form of an operation for the benefit of the said quarter. Opposing this type of terrorism is unofficial terrorism.

The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime. It has failed utterly to destroy or even minimize the horrible scourge of its own creation.

It is especially jarring when police officers are the killers because they are an entity of the state itself, so when the state shows a lack of sensitivity, community members feel it is an obvious example of abuse..

States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power

Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.

Don't denounce our pain as savage. What's savage is the cruel inhumanity and brutality of the police. Condemn that.

The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic.

Attica. The name itself has long signified resistance to prison abuse and state violence.

The problem is not cop killers...it's killer cops.

State violence cannot be defined simply as a political issue but also as a pedagogical issue that wages violence against the minds, desires, bodies and identities of young people as part of the reconfiguration of the social state into the punishing state.

The British government is a murder machine.

The US has been the leading terrorist state in the world for many years.

If Abu Nidal is a terrorist, then so is George Washington.

The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.

In the United States the state monopoly on the use of violence has intensified since the 1980s, and in the process, has been increasingly directed against young people, low-income whites, poor minorities, immigrants, and women.

Violence begets violence, you know. And you can't kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We'd have to kill off the government.

Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn't mean I'm anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.

Because Al-Qaeda has been a non-state centered organisation, many of these scenarios do not exactly apply. These are not wars between states. And yet, it seems to me that we make a mistake if we accept the view that states are fighting terrorism, since we have abundant evidence for accepting the idea of state terrorism, and what is most urgent is to track and expose how state terrorism operates under the rubric of "democracy."