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| human beings have strong impulses to destruction or harm. these occur even in the name of peace and community. the history of war demonstrates that. |
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| most people never recognize themselves among the ranks of those who are complicit in violence. |
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| people are unable to reconsider hate and move away from fear because, consciously or not, they do not want to confront the possibility of unwanted emotional and psychic changes within themselves. |
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| the distance between us and them is where we live. |
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| they are so intellectually and emotionally attached to the existing world that they cannot see the larger structures that facilitate fear and violence. |
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| when many of the people said to be responsible for violence are known as good, decent people, there is a conceptual fracture: they are not the murderous criminals of the cultural imagination. |
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| when the public imagination is so shuttered, it becomes impossible for people-and societies-to do anything different from what they have been doing. it becomes impossible to even think of alternatives. |
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