Even fighting in self-defense is wrong, though it is higher than fighting in aggression. There is no “righteous” indignation, because indignation comes from not recognizing sameness in all things. —Vivekananda More about this quote Tags: commonality righteousness violence self-defense sameness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from Vivekananda It is good to be born in a church, but it is bad to die there. It is good to be born a child, but bad to remain a child. Churches, ceremonies, symbols are good for children; but when the child is grown up, he must burst, either the church or himself. . . . The end of all religion is the realization of God. —Vivekananda More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is good to be born in a church, but it is bad to die there. It is good to be born a child, but bad to remain a child. Churches, ceremonies, symbols are good for children; but when the child is grown up, he must burst, either the church or himself. . . . The end of all religion is the realization of God. —Vivekananda More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “violence” You have to want to lose your appetite for violence or aggression. And to do that, you have to lose your self-righteousness. —Pema Chödrön More about this quote Tags: desire violence aggression self-righteousness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence. —John Lennon More about this quote Tags: regret violence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. —Mahatma Gandhi More about this quote Tags: power impotence violence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool. —Katherine Dunn More about this quote Tags: survival violence damage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The most violent element in society is ignorance. —Emma Goldman More about this quote Tags: politics ignorance society violence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You have to want to lose your appetite for violence or aggression. And to do that, you have to lose your self-righteousness. —Pema Chödrön More about this quote Tags: desire violence aggression self-righteousness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence. —John Lennon More about this quote Tags: regret violence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. —Mahatma Gandhi More about this quote Tags: power impotence violence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool. —Katherine Dunn More about this quote Tags: survival violence damage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The most violent element in society is ignorance. —Emma Goldman More about this quote Tags: politics ignorance society violence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email