Henry Giroux Quotes

Despite what your momma told you, Violence does solve problems.

Why? What is so wonderful about mass murder that nobody in the history of the world has ever fond any smarter solution to problems than killing everybody who doesn’t agree? Is that the limit of human intelligence?

Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem, but you sow the seeds for another.

I'm sure all of us agree that we need to overcome violence, but we first need to examine whether it has any value. From a strictly practical perspective, on certain occasions violence appears to be useful. We can solve a problem quickly by force. But this success is often at the expense of the rights and welfare of others. Although one problem has been solved, the seed of another has been planted.

Emphasize reconciliation, not resolution. It is unrealistic to expect everyone to agree about everything. Reconciliation focuses on the relationship, while resolution focuses on the problem. When we focus on reconciliation, the problem loses significance and often becomes irrelevant.

Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.

The U.S. generally wants to solve problems with coercion. That's kind of the default way the American state wants to try to solve problems. So there are many parallels between that: mass incarceration, mass surveillance, and militarism.

I think violence begets violence. I don't think a way to solve any sort of conflict is with violence because nothing ever ends up solved, that way.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a reasonable solution to problems, we are in need of another vision.

Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.

We cannot get stuck in a cycle of violence which cannot be broken.

We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.

You'll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior.

Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.

What’s so civil about war anyway?

Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.

I would certainly say that. I don't want to see riots. I don't want to see problems.

Equipping one side of an ethnic conflict and then prodding it to resolve its ethnic problems by force of arms is a very bad policy.

And I thought the whole point of my education was that violence IS the answer.

Practically every violent conflict or social change has proved that violence unleashes violence in return.

It is triple ultra forbidden to respond to criticism with violence. There are a very few injunctions in the human art of rationality that have no ifs, ands, buts, or escape clauses. This is one of them. Bad argument gets counterargument. Does not get bullet. Never. Never ever never for ever.

We are not going to deal with the violence in our communities, our homes, and our nation, until we learn to deal with the basic ethic of how we resolve our disputes and to place an emphasis on peace in the way we relate to one another.

The whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance.

Let us ask Mary to help us respond to violence, to conflict and to war, with the power of dialogue, reconciliation and love. She is our mother: may she help us to find peace; all of us are her children!