
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
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- To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. – JeanJacques Rousseau
- To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties. – JeanJacques Rousseau
- Sometimes violence is necessary to prevent even more violence,- I concluded, almost as if it were an epiphany. – Zack Love
- Violence only attacks the body, but it is non-violence that has the power to influence the soul and reshape it towards a peaceful future. – Abhijit Naskar
- While I cannot prevent the birds from flying over my head, I can prevent them from making a nest in my hair. – Chapter 5 My Cinderella – Santosh Avvannavar
- Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. – Thomas Sowell
- What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race? – Thomas Sowell
- Reality does not go away when it is ignored. – Thomas Sowell
- Intellect is not wisdom. – Thomas Sowell
- No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries. – Thomas Sowell
- As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill. – Thomas Sowell
- It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal. – Thomas Sowell
- What do you have that the Lord didn’t provide?What do you need that the Lord can’t provide? – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Provide for her Future-”if you can!-”That’s my motto!-”But a man’s just a plain bum who don’t provide for his own Past! – Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- We can make this a more peaceful century if we cherish non-violence and concern for others’ well-being. – AuliqIce
- New projects are interesting when goals are grounded by the hunger to discover and integrate. The elusive are made concrete in such ways – Val Uchendu
- A leader is someone who creates better ways of doing things and better ways are new and comfortable ways. – Israelmore Ayivor
- Love yourself to love others.Be yourself to understand others. Be the light to show the way to others.Be peaceful to bring peace to the world. – Debasish Mridha
- Anything that makes it easier to understand, makes it a little easier to bear. – Rosie Thomas
- 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
- We also self-inflict violence, because violence is our only way of relating to the world, to others and to ourselves. – Bryant McGill
- I feel like crying. There’s something so sad about broken concrete. – Scarlett Thomas
- Nothing a man suffers will prevent him from inflicting suffering on others. Indeed, it will teach him the way – Barry Unsworth
- Peaceful coexistence is hallmark of peaceful world. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Peaceful society, peaceful world. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the feeling of sleep, but awake in it together. – John Green
- 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
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- Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end. – Joseph Conrad
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- When Christianity takes itself seriously, it must either renounce or master the world. – Roland H Bainton
- When Christianity takes itself seriously, it must either renounce or master the world. – Roland H Bainton
- For many things were shown,Recorded and written down.But what is God to do,When His Word you do renounce? – Kari L Greenaway
- Despite the violence and war, this world is the most peaceful place with the most beautiful nature in the universe. – Debasish Mridha
- All situations can be resolved peaceful. We should advocate for kindness instead of violence. – Mary Sage Nguyen
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- To use violence against a peaceful man is the greatest immorality and the biggest rot ever! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- If he could only prevent himself growing up! He did not want to be a man. – Thomas Hardy
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