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“We shall never stop until we can go back home and Israel is destroyed... The goal of our struggle is the end of Israel, and there can be no compromises or mediations... the goal of this violence is the elimination of Zionism from Palestine in all its political, economic and military aspects... We don't want peace, we want victory. Peace for us means Israel's destruction and nothing else.”

Want Mean Ends Home Political Goal Struggle Violence Economic Military Victory Aspect Destruction Israel Destroyed Compromise Palestine Back Home Elimination Zionism Mediation No Compromise

Author:Yasser Arafat

“Anti-Islamist Muslims - who wish to live modern lives, unencumbered by burqas, fatwas and violent visions of jihad - are on the defensive and atomized. However eloquent, their individual voices cannot compete with the roar of militant Islam's determination, money (much of it from overseas) and violence. As a result, militant Islam, with its West-phobia and goal of world hegemony, dominates Islam in the West and appears to many to be the only kind of Islam.”

World Kind Individual Wish Goal Voice Results Vision Violence Modern Determination West Islam Violent Modern Life Eloquent Militant Jihad Phobia Hegemony Islamists Burqa

Author:Daniel Pipes

“Our goals are the same as those of the U.N.'s founders, who sought to replace a world at war with one where the rule of law would prevail, where human rights were honored, where development would blossom, where conflict would give way to freedom from violence.”

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Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“Arnold Schwarzenegger campaigned in New York this week, where he stepped up his controversial goal of helping children.... It's all summed up in his campaign slogan, 'Arnold Schwarzenegger: Cutting violence in half with a laser-guided chain gun across a charred landscape - for the children.'”

Children Helping Goal Half Cutting Violence Week New York Gun Campaigns Chains Landscape Slogans Controversial Schwarzenegger Lasers Helping Children

Author:Jon Stewart

“Each and every child in this country is valuable because they are our future as a society. We cannot afford to lose a single child to ill-health, under-education, abuse, addiction, jail, or gun violence. America's highest goal should be for every child to grow up to be a successful young adult -- healthy, educated, free, secure, and a good citizen.”

“If someone can produce the law that keeps guns out of the hands of criminals but protects the right of law-abiding citizens to possess them, and doesn't infringe on those rights, I would consider that. But all the proposals I've seen do not achieve that goal. And we are missing a golden opportunity to have an important debate about violence in the USA. Violence in our society is the problem.”

“A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.”

Source: The Anatomy of Fascism

“I'm telling Palestinians don't use violence. We're going to use the civilized means of international law to achieve our goals, our independence, our freedom.”

Mean Use Law Goal Violence Achieve Independence International Civilized Palestinian International Law

Author:Saeb Erekat

“If one's cause is supported by sound reasoning, there is no point in using violence. It is those who have no motive other than selfish desire and who cannot achieve their goal through logical reasoning who rely on force.”

Ifs Desire Force Causes Sound Goal Violence Achieve Selfish Rely Motive Reasoning Logical No Point Selfish Desire Logical Reasoning

Book:Imagine All the People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be

Source: Imagine All the People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be

“The 'realist' conception of continuing old-fashioned 'balance of power' politics may have been well founded in the past, but it is inconsistent with our increasing interdependent world. On moral grounds alone there can be no justification for the 20th century level of killing. To settle disputes without violence must become the primary goal of foreign policy for every nation.”

“Nonviolence is the only way. Even if you achieve your goal by violent means there are always side effects, and these can be worse than the problem. Violence is against human nature.”

Ifs Way Humans Mean Problem Sides Goal Violence Achieve Effects Human Nature Violent Nonviolence Side Effects Achieving Your Goals

Author:Dalai Lama

“The goal of the 'liberals' - as it emerges from the record of the past decades - was to smuggle this country into welfare statism by means of single, concrete, specific measures, enlarging the power of the government a step at a time, never permitting these steps to be summed up into principles, never permitting their direction to be identified or the basic issue to be named. Thus, statism was to come, not by vote or by violence, but by slow rot - by a long process of evasion and epistemological corruption, leading to a fait accompli.”

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Author:Ayn Rand

“You know, my goal is not to convince you that I'm right or that you're wrong. About homophobia. Gun violence. Racism. Whatever the issue. I'm really trying hard with you - and others - to have a respectful discussion, debate about these issues.”

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Author:Steven Petrow

“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”

Source: A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students