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“If you pursue meditation with a non-competitive attitude, with a hopeful and helpful attitude, without violence, then you will find that you will become a very benign and powerful being, one who is at peace with himself and the universe.”

Ifs Universe Powerful Attitude Meditation Violence Buddhism Pursue Hopeful Helpful Benign

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment. In the absence of an end to the senseless violence and a genuine process of political reform, we will continue to pursue further EU sanctions.”

Ends Political Process Cities Violence Increase Absence Genuine Pursue Reform Regimes Resentment July Sanctions Legitimacy Hamas Erode Political Reform Senseless Violence

Author:William Hague

“It's very important to distinguish between innocence and naivete. The innocent do not deserve to be the victims of violence. But only the naive refuse to think about the origins of violence and to pursue the possibility that the genesis of that hatred could be addressed.”

Thinking Important Violence Possibility Deserve Hatred Victim Refuse Innocent Pursue Innocence Naive Genesis Naivete

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“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 don't get a fair whack, I don't pursue vendettas or punch people on the nose.”

People Violence Fairs Pursue Noses Vendetta

Author:John Prescott

“At this moment, I don't think people would back the old-fashioned Marxist-Leninist ideas of FARC. But I do hope that the rebels will continue to pursue their agenda by legal means and not through violence.”

People Thinking Mean Ideas Moments Violence Pursue Agendas Rebel Old Fashioned Marxist

Author:Juan Manuel Santos

“We should all have greater freedoms to define and pursue our lives without pathologization, de-realization, harassment, threats of violence, violence, and criminalization. I join in the struggle to realize such a world.”

World Should Realizing Struggle Greater Our Lives Violence Threat Pursue Realization Harassment

Author:Judith Butler

“Eliminating wickedness is a different project from eliminating violence. Eliminating violence - the destruction associated with wickedness - is a practical program that I'm very willing to pursue.”

Different Violence Willing Projects Program Destruction Practicals Pursue Wickedness Eliminating

Author:Jaron Lanier