On violence |
| -When you call
yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or
anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent ? It
is because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When
you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it
breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religon, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind. -Krishnamurti |
"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder." - Albert Einstein |
I and the public know what all schoolchildren learn Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return (W.H.Auden) |