“To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppressive means, to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanatical and ruthless, will not further the cause of justice or bring about a meaningful democracy. It can only prolong the cycle of violence.” MeanFightingCausesJusticeDemocracyViolenceBecomingMeaningfulTyrannyOppressionCyclesCombatRuthlessFanaticismCycle Of Violence Book:The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity Source: The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity
“But many researchers operate as if it is their responsibility to demonstrate that video violence has a direct effect on the behaviour of young children, because that will help to explain why society is becoming more violent.” IfsChildrenHelpingYoungResponsibilityViolenceEffectsBecomingDirectViolentVideoBehaviourBecoming MoreResearchersYoung ChildrenDirect Effect Author:Hugh Mackay
“One simply cannot engage in barbarous action without becoming a barbarian, because one cannot defend human values by calculated and unprovoked violence without doing mortal damage to the values one is trying to defend.” TryingHumansActionValuesViolenceBecomingMortalsDamageBarbariansHuman Values Author:J. William Fulbright
“This must be the mission of every man of goodwill: to insist, unflaggingly, at risk of becoming a repetitive bore, but to insist on the achievement of a world in which the mind will have triumphed over violence.” MenWorldMindViolenceRiskBecomingAchievementMissionsEvery ManBoresGoodwillRepetitive Author:Leonard Bernstein
“You have got to goad yourself toward a becoming that is in accordance with what you are innate. You have got to sometimes become the medicine you want to take. You have got to, you have absolutely got to put your face into the gash and sniff, and lick. You have got to learn to get sick. You have got to reestablish the integrity of your emotions so that their violence can become a health and so that you can keep on becoming. There is no sacrifice. You have got to want to live. You have got to force yourself to want to.” WantSometimesFacesForceEmotionViolenceSacrificeBecomingIntegritySickMedicineYour FaceInnate Author:Ariana Reines
“I started to think more about becoming peace rather than fighting for peace, and the contradiction in terms, and the anger and violence that we were prey to and involved in to some extent in those days.” ThinkingFightingTermViolenceBecomingInvolvedContradictionPrey Author:Surya Das