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“War should we waged without love of violence, cruelty, or enmity.”

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Author:Saint Augustine

“We're trying to sell peace, like a product, you know, and sell it like people sell soap or soft drinks. And it's the only way to get people aware that peace is possible, and it isn't just inevitable to have violence. Not just war - all forms of violence.”

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Author:John Lennon

“Violence begets violence, you know. And you can't kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We'd have to kill off the government.”

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Author:John Lennon

“I used to be cruel to my woman, and physically - any woman. I was a hitter. I couldn't express myself and I hit. I fought men and I hit women. That is why I am always on about peace, you see. It is the most violent people who go for love and peace. Everything's the opposite. But I sincerely believe in love and peace. I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence. I will have to be a lot older before I can face in public how I treated women as a youngster.”

Source: The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono

“It is easier for an artful Man, who is not in Love, to persuade his Mistress he has a Passion for her, and to succeed in his Pursuits, than for one who loves with the greatest Violence. True Love hath ten thousand Griefs, Impatiencies and Resentments, that render a Man unamiable in the Eyes of the Person whose Affection he sollicits.”

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Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“Few people love with the violence they hate.”

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Author:Norm MacDonald

“I recognize that folks in the press love to see Republican-on-Republican violence, and so you want me to say something bad about Donald Trump, or bad about John McCain or bad about anyone else, i'm not going to do it.”

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Author:Ted Cruz

“Love heals violence and all its sources. Love only serves and does not calculate. Love gives without expectation, while hate carries an endless tally of debts. Hate controls everything it touches, but love sets everything it touches free.”

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Author:Bryant H. McGill

“Love as Thought is Truth. Love as Action is Right Conduct. Love as Understanding is Peace. Love as Feeling is Non-violence.”

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Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Little minds try to solve the matters through violence and darkness; great minds try to solve the matters through love and light!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.”

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Author:Elton John

“Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.”

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Book:In a Single Garment of Destiny

Source: In a Single Garment of Destiny