We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
– RD Laing
Related Quotes:
- We also self-inflict violence, because violence is our only way of relating to the world, to others and to ourselves. – Bryant McGill
- As long as we do violence to other animals, we’ll keep on doing violence to ourselves. – Paul Russell
- POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. – Ambrose Bierce
- Modern society is a biological disaster masquerading as progress. – Steven Magee
- No magnetic wombats, no flying hyenas, no catfish masquerading as samurai, and, MOST CERTAINLY, no Duku jam! – Gina MarinelloSweeney
- The Abrahamic God is a disease masquerading as its own remedy which we desperately need to cure. – Priscilla Vogelbacher
- Domestic terrorism is alive and well in the USA and it is masquerading as -œProgress-. – Steven Magee
- Where love is absent, violence is a glaring possibility. Introduce love into any situation and violence gradually evaporates. – Pooja Ruprell
- We are our own worst enemy and make no mistake we are destroying ourselves. – Bryant McGill
- To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions. – Stephen R Covey
- By leading ourselves effectively, we can learn to lead others as a whole person: mind, body, and spirit. – Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
- When we take into consideration the needs of both ourselves and others, we communicate honestly, compassionately and effectively. – Aletheia Luna
- Self-belief is not self-centred. We can only fight effectively for others if we already believe in ourselves. – Carla H Krueger
- Violence never can wipe out violence, only a caring heart with love can do that. – Debasish Mridha
- Sometimes violence is necessary to prevent even more violence,- I concluded, almost as if it were an epiphany. – Zack Love
- Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others. – Thomas Sowell
- A president who has incited violence inspires citizens towards hate and violence. – DaShanne Stokes
- To protect one’s own statement is the greatest form of violence. To impress upon others that his statement is correct is a form of violence itself. – Dada Bhagwan
- If you have a drop of violence or anger in your mind, it can ignite a candle and be the source of violence, so be kind. – Debasish Mridha
- Non-violence is more powerful than violence. Nature eliminates violent animals bit by bit. – Amit Ray
- Violence can only breed more violence and suffering. Our struggle must remain non-violent and free of hatred. – Dalai Lama XIV
- If you are earning your money through violence, all this money is unethical, because violence and ethics cannot be together! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Violence is violence and can in no way be misconstrued as discipline under any circumstance cultural or otherwise. – Aysha Taryam
- Violence is violence and can in no way be misconstrued as discipline under any circumstance cultural or otherwise. – Aysha Taryam
- We have been trained by a culture of violence and we are all agents of passive violence. – Bryant McGill
- Violence only begets violence when we allow it to. We always have a choice. – PT Denys
- The fish does not know it is wet. America is immersed in violence. The violence is in our souls. The enemy is within. – Bryant McGill
- No violence, gentlemen -” no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture! – Arthur Conan Doyle
- When we allow violence against some, we enable violence against all. – DaShanne Stokes
- Where ever there’s guilt there’s violence, and if guilt is a smell then violence is a taste: strawberries and formaldehyde and ironish blood. – Glen Duncan
- It didn’t take much prompting for Cariocas who were sick of living with violence to advocate violence as a solution. – Juliana Barbassa
- As if violence could make light. Maybe violence could make light. – Aspen Matis
- In Labor movements generally, success through violence can hardly be expected except in circumstances where success without violence is attainable. – Bertrand Russell
- Today you closed your eyes on violence, tomorrow, the violence will close your eyes on you. – VicDo
- Violence can be a gift. Violence belongs to everyone. – Bryant McGill
- Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create. – John Paul II
- Is racial violence is the answer for happened racial violence? Which planet am I? Where are the people who taught me there is no difference? Why? – Csaba GaborB
- Don’t you understand that freedom depends upon the continuing possibility of rebel violence. When violence becomes unthinkable, freedom dies-¦ – Samuel B Southwell
- All violence demands reform, and all violence desperately begs to be healed. – Bryant McGill
- Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence? – Paolo Freire