Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.
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Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them.
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
People who are in a position of power like to throw their weight around, and that becomes abuse.
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it's also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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