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“We shall not bind ourselves by treaties. We shall not allow ourselves to be entangled by treaties. We reject all clauses on plunder and violence, but we shall welcome all clauses containing provisions for good-neighbourly relations and all economic agreements; we cannot reject these.”

Violence Economic Relation Welcome Agreement Rejects Provision Treaties Containing Plunder Clauses

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.”

Accepting Violence Oneself Rejection Rejects Renounce

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.”

Looks I Can Faces Accepting Violence Rejects

Author:Wole Soyinka

“Muslim leaders around the globe have to continue working with us to decisively and unequivocally reject the hateful ideology that groups like ISIL and al Qaeda promote. To speak out against not just acts of violence, but also those interpretations of Islam that are incompatible with the values of religious tolerance, mutual respect, and human dignity.”

“It is time that the great center of our people, who reject the violence and unreasonableness of both the extreme right and the extreme left, searched their consciences, mustered their moral and physical courage, shed their intimidated silence, and declare their consciences.”

People Left Silence Moral Violence Conscience Extremes Rejects Shed Intimidated Physical Courage

Book:Declaration of conscience

Source: Declaration of conscience

“When a female character sets herself on fire in an effort to interrupt her culture's violent abuse of disenfranchised people, or physically tortures and punishes her guardian rapist, or picks up a gun and fights back in ways that make her not pretty, or aggressively rejects her role as the object of desire, or even when she waddles off into the woods to squat and have a baby without the safety and expertise of hospitals and doctors, these are the kinds of violences and stories we can learn from.”

“Hamas must agree to first recognize Israel, second to end all violence, third to accept past agreements. Try to find a mention of the fact that the United States and Israel reject all three of those. They obviously don't recognize Palestine, they certainly don't withdraw the use of violence or the threat of it - in fact they insist on it - and they don't accept past agreements, including the road map.”

Trying Firsts Ends States Facts Use Past Three United Accepting United States Violence Thirds Agree Threat Including Israel Agreement Rejects Maps Palestine Hamas Road Maps

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country's unity.”

Country Violence Unity Our Country Selfishness Rejects

Author:Mwai Kibaki

“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.: