We are all artificial and have been unnaturally changed by violence and unwholesome conditioning.
The need for gain, and advantage over others, is one of the chief driving forces behind all human misery.
All of our relationships are based on self-interest, discrimination and a perverse need for gain.
We have been trained by a culture of violence and we are all agents of passive violence.
We live in a culture of violence.
Modern consumer life is a form of extreme passive violence against all people.
The objective of life under capitalism is to capitalize or realize a gain — materially or socially — over your competitors.
Capitalism places individuals into direct competition with one another, with their minds and words as their weapons.
Corporate capitalism, unchecked by restraint and morality, quickly becomes a steady source of passive violence, which extends as far as its greedy reach can grope what it covets.
As far as physical violence is concerned, governments have historically shown themselves to be the most effective and deadly terrorist organizations that have ever existed, at least this is true if body count means anything.
