“To the ideal of high consumption and the downgrading of spiritual values corresponds a conception of injustice that centers exclusively on the problem of consumption; and equality in consumption cannot be achieved except by violence.” ProblemSpiritualValuesViolenceIdealsInjusticeConceptionConsumptionConsumerismOverconsumptionSpiritual ValuesDowngrading Author:Jacques Ellul
“Literary revolution and revolutionary literature did not create a beautiful new world but instead divested literature of its basic nature, promoted violence, and, by resorting to linguistic violence, made a battlefield of this domain of spiritual freedom.” WorldMadeBeautifulSpiritualLiteratureViolenceRevolutionRevolutionaryNew WorldDomainBattlefieldsSpiritual Freedom Author:Gao Xingjian
“Contemporary movies just drive me crazy. The violence and the sentimentality and the spiritual materialism and Theism and the incredible indulgence in ignorance is so claustrophobic.” SpiritualViolenceCrazyIgnoranceIncrediblesContemporaryMaterialismIndulgenceSentimentalityTheismDrive Me Crazy Author:Anne Waldman
“Assess the work of whatever others do to you or say about you, and cultivate fortitude and the understanding to appreciate their behaviour and pardon their faults. This capacity is as invaluable as truth, righteousness, wisdom, non-violence, renunciation, delight and compassion. It is all that one need possess for spiritual advancement.” NeedsSpiritualUnderstandingCompassionViolenceCapacityAppreciateFaultsDelightRighteousnessBehaviourFortitudeAdvancementPardonNon ViolenceRenunciationInvaluable Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“At the very center of our culture is a crucified man, a tortured man hanging on a cross of wood. You have an image of violence at the very center of our spiritual investigation.” MenSpiritualCultureViolenceCrossesWoodsInvestigationHanging On Author:Leonard Cohen