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The Bible
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| "In violence, we forget who we are." | |
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Mary McCarthy
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| "Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose
thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has
potency which the world does not yet know." | |
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Mahatma Gandhi
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| "Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be
defended and not to be shared." | |
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Henri Nouwen
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| "Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill
one another is it is not done." | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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| "Take from all things their number and all shall perish." | |
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Isidore of Seville
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| "The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral,
begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil,
it multiplies it." | |
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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| "The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment;
but it does no remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not
governed, which is perpetually to be conquered." | |
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Edmund Burke
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| "Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer
falls into the pit which he digs for another." | |
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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| "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." | |
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Isaac Asimov
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| "We are constantly invited to be who we are." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "We discover in ourselves what others hide from us, and we recognize
in others what we hide from ourselves." | |
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Vauvenargues
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