“The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.” WayStillsDealsViolenceLessonsBureaucratsStealthCairo Author:Boutros Boutros-Ghali
“An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.” ChildrenHoursViolenceLessonsFundamentalismPalestineBerlinViolin Author:Daniel Barenboim
“Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature itself. They learn that they have to defend their own bodies and persons lives from violence of any and every kind by all means within their power.” PeopleKindMeanPersonsBodyCommunityViolenceTaughtLessonsTraditionLogicBeastCivilizedBarbariansWild Beasts Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“We can learn a great deal from whales. It is the same lesson we can learn from our close genetic relatives, the bonobo apes of the Congo. Here mothers have a great deal of authority, there is very little violence (with no signs of sexual violence against females), and their society is held together by sharing and caring rather than by fear and force.” LittlesTogetherMotherForceDealsViolenceLessonsAuthorityFemaleCaringApesCongoWhalesBonobosSharing And Caring Author:Riane Eisler
“You can't assume if you do something contentious that people will be on your side. The moment violence enters the story, the story changes. Then the question is, "How do you face up to violence?" And then you have to have a no-compromise position. And this is quite simply a lesson we learn in the school playground.” PeopleIfsMomentsStoriesSchoolFacesSidesViolencePositionLessonsAssumingCompromiseYour SidePlaygroundsNo CompromiseContentious Author:Salman Rushdie