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“To break out of the chaos of my darkness Into a lucid day is all my will. My words like eyes in night, stare to reach A centre for their light: and my acts thrown To distant places by impatient violence Yet lock together to mould a path of stone Out of my darkness into a lucid day.”

Light Eye Together Night Break Darkness Path Violence Stones Chaos Staring Thrown Locks Centre Impatient Break Out Mould

Book:World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender

Source: World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender

“My words like eyes that flinch from light, refuse And shut upon obscurity; my acts Cast to their opposites by impatient violence Break up the sequent path; they fly On a circumference to avoid the centre.”

Light Eye Break Path Violence Opposites Casts Refuse Shut Up Centre Impatient Obscurity

Book:World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender

Source: World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender

“In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to come He would give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgement and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that he may grant to us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the German people, and that he may ever give us the courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger.”

Source: The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939

“On my knees, I beg of you to turn away from the paths of violence and to return to the path of peace. Those who resort to violence always claim that only violence brings about change. You must know there is a political, peaceful way to justice.”

Knows Way Political Turns Justice Path Violence Return Claims Peaceful Knees Resorts

Author:Pope John Paul II

“The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.”

Nations Path Violence Nonviolence

Book:The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

“For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.”

Government Path Violence Obstruction

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“The path of violence has not yielded anything. Shed guns and adopt the path of peace, unity, goodwill and brotherhood.”

Motivation Path Violence Gun India Unity Brotherhood Shed Goodwill

Author:Narendra Modi

“We call for a welcoming path to citizenship, an end to police violence, and a transformed foreign policy based on international law and human rights - not based on these policies of regime change and economic and military domination.”

“If you live in a society where those who govern society and determine its path do not respect freedom of speech and freedom of religion, freedom of choice, freedom of assembly, and if there is no democratic process and no way to change the order of things by reason and peace and love and so on, and if, as a result of that, certain ideas in which you believe are being crushed, then I think the only way you can defend yourself against this violence is in using violence of your own.”

“Sadly and criminally, many self-indulgent inactive pacifists have shunned me for being an outspoken supporter of X's 'by any means necessary' philosophy, even though NOT supporting me means you are supporting violence since millions of meat, dairy, egg and honey-eaters who would have had a chance to see my speeches, essays or advertisements continue along their violent paths unchallenged.”

Mean Self Philosophy Chance Millions Path Violence Speech Violent Meat Eggs Honey Supporter Essays Advertisements Pacifist Dairy Outspoken Self Indulgent

Author:Gary Yourofsky

“For every stone that [Pablo Escobar] threw, he would get many thrown back at him and us, his family, because we were the most vulnerable. In these types of extreme situations, we learned about the consequences of violence and that is why we did not go down the same path.”

Situation Path Violence Type Consequence Stones Extremes Vulnerable Thrown Pablo Escobar Consequences Of Violence

Author:Juan Pablo Escobar

“My whole life I saw how the violence my father created had come back to my family and I thought that I would only make things worse for my mother and my sister if I sought to avenge my father. I had to dare to take a path of peace.”

Ifs Whole Mother Father Path Saws Violence My Family Dare Whole Life My Sister

Author:Juan Pablo Escobar