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• In the short term, corporal punishment may produce obedience. But it is a fact documented by research that in the long term the results are inability to learn, violence and rage, bullying, cruelty, inability to feel another’s pain, especially that of one’s own children, even drug addiction and suicide, unless there are enlightened or at least helping witnesses on hand to prevent that development.

  Alice Miller

  Topics in Anger, Children

  Tags in Violence

• Violence is an admission that one’s ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.

  Edward Kennedy

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• Everyone’s a pacifist between wars. It’s like being a vegetarian between meals.

  Colman McCarthy

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  Tags in Nonviolence, War, Violence

• Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

  Isaac Asimov

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  Tags in War, Violence

• Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

  Martin Luther King Jr

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  Tags in Nonviolence, Hatred, Violence

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

  Theodor W. Adorno

  Topics in Power

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• You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

  Desmond Tutu

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  Tags in Nonviolence, Example, Violence

• The sword of murder is not the balance of justice.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Topics in Justice

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  Tags in Nonviolence, Understanding, Violence

• Nonviolence, exactly like violence, is a means of persuasion, a technique for political activism, a recipe for prevailing.

  Mark Kurlansky

  Topics in Politics, Power

  Tags in Nonviolence, Violence

• Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Topics in Truth

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• If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Conflict, Violence

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

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Nonviolence, Violence

• Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

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  Tags in Nonviolence, Violence

• The claim that mild punishments (slaps or smacks) have no detrimental effect is still widespread because we got this message very early from our parents who had taken it over from their own parents. Unfortunately, the main damage it causes is precisely the broad dissemination of this conviction. The result of which is that each successive generation is subjected to the tragic effects of so called physical “correction.”

  Alice Miller

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Violence

• Hitler, Stalin, Mao and other dictators were exposed to severe physical mistreatment in childhood and refused to face up to the fact later. Instead of seeing and feeling what had happened to them, they avenged themselves vicariously by killing millions of people. And millions of others helped them to do so.

  Alice Miller

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Violence

• All ideologies end up killing people. If you separate love from nonviolence you turn nonviolence into an ideology, a gimmick. Structures that are not inhabited by justice and love have no liberating or reconciling force, and are never sources of life.

  Unknown

  Topics in Ideals, Love, Politics

  Tags in Nonviolence, Jean Goss, Violence

• All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

  John Ruskin

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  Tags in Perception, Violence

• Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

  John Ruskin

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  Tags in Government, Violence

• 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

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