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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.

 

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I would say that I'm a nonviolent soldier. In place of weapons of violence, you have to use your mind, your heart, your sense of humor, every faculty available to you...because no one has the right to take the life of another human being.



John F. Kennedy:

 

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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

 

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

 

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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.

 

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An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.



Mohandas K. Gandhi:

 

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object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary, the evil it does is permanent.

 

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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.

 

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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.

 

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I have now reigned about 50 years in victory or peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot. They amount to fourteen. (960 C.E.)

 

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lazy Apathy let Stoics boast,
Their Virtue fix'd, 'tis fixed as in a frost.

 

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Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

 

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The excess of virtue is a vice.

 

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In justice is all virtues

 

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I think the first virtue is to restrain

 

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There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.

 

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It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

 

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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

 

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.