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• We must also be careful to avoid ingesting toxins in the form of violent TV programs, video games, movies, magazines, and books. When we watch that kind of violence, we water our own negative seeds, or tendencies, and eventually we will think and act out of those seeds.

  Thich Nhat Hanh

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Violence

• All who affirm the use of violence admit it is only a means to achieve justice and peace. But peace and justice are nonviolence…the final end of history. Those who abandon nonviolence have no sense of history. Rather they are bypassing history, freezing history, betraying history.

  Andre Trocme

  Topics in History, Justice

  Tags in Nonviolence, Violence

• We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.

  Desmond Tutu

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Nonviolence, Violence

• Violence is not power, but the absence of power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Violence

• 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

  Topics in Suffering

  Tags in Nonviolence, Responsibility, Violence

• We tend to think the problem is human beings have this natural tendency to kill, and yet in the middle of a hot war, WWII, a “good war,” as it were, the US army was astonished to learn that at least three out of every four riflemen who were trained to kill and commanded to kill, could not bring themselves to pull the trigger when they could see the person they were ordered to kill. And that inner resistance to violence is a well kept secret.

  William Ury

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nonviolence, Violence

• Violence is the last word of the illiterate. Also the first.

  Solomon Short

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  Tags in Violence

• The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.

  A. J. Muste

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Nonviolence, Good, Evil, Violence

• You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

  Avram Noam Chomsky

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Against, Need, Violence

• Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child’s attention, it’s worse than taking candy from a baby. It is taking precious time from the process of growing up.

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Violence

• It is, however, well known that the main national liberation organizations in this country have consistently followed a policy of non-violence. They have conducted themselves peaceably at all times, regardless of government attacks and persecutions u.

  Nelson Mandela

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Violence

• The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.

  Norman Lear

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Trafficking, Violence

• Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs.

  Brian Aldiss

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Violence

• Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we’d kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes to save, says it would be only 200 million.

  Norman Thomas

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War, Violence

• Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  Tags in Attained, Peace, Understanding, Violence

• Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

  Theodor W. Adorno

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rest, Violence

• 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

  Topics in Goal

  Tags in Highest, Until, Violence

• And when human rights are being thrown aside, ignored, well, there’s no game in progress, that’s all — in spite of the childhood bible, the comic strip. It believes that only when you’re permitted to murder, kill, rob and burn can a game be in progress. That is the message carried to us by the Sunday papers. And that is the message which every child erroneously learns.

  L Ron Hubbard

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Human Rights, Violence

• The only thing that’s been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

  Joan Baez

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Violence

• Revenge… is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Greater, Revenge, Violence