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~ The question is no longer between violence and non-violence; it is between non-violence and non-existence. ~

~ The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles. ~

Mahatma Gandhi

~ Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. ~

Thomas Alva Edison

~ The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling. ~

Hugh Latimer

~ The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling. ~

Hugh Latimer

~ We often think of peace as the absence of war; that if the powerful countries would reduce their arsenals, we could have peace. But if we look deeply into the weapons, we see our own minds - our prejudices, fears, and ignorance. Even if we transported all the bombs to the moon, the roots of war and the reasons for bombs would still be here, in our hearts and minds, and sooner or later we would make new bombs. Seek to become more aware of what causes anger and separation, and what overcomes them. Root out the violence in your life, and learn to live compassionately and mindfully ~

Thich Nhat Hanh

~ What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness; but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or they be black. ~

Robert F. Kennedy

~ The common dogma is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defence against the dangerous new knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity ~

G Gaia

~ Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us ~

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

~ A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it. ~

Lewis H Lapham

~ Nonviolence is a†weapon†of the strong ~

Mahatma Gandhi

~ The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance. ~

E. B. White

~ Wrestling is ballet with violence. ~

Jesse Ventura

~ Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. ~

Bible

~ In England Ö education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence ~

Hebrew Proverb

~ Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence ~

Hebrew Proverb

~ Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them. ~

Louise Bogan

~ When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much reality in life. ~

Joyce Carol Oates

~ Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. ~

George Orwell

~ Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. ~

Isaac Asimov

~ Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others ~

John Locke

~ Poverty is the worst form of violence. ~

Mahatma Gandhi

~ Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. ~

Hannah Arendt

~ Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being. ~

Mahatma Ghandi

~ There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral. ~

Benito Mussolini

~ It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. ~

Mahatma Gandhi

~ The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves ~

FranÁois de la Rochefoucauld

~ The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. ~

Max Stirner

~ All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished. ~

Marshall Rosenberg

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