Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
The measures and acts which show us violently disposed towards the outer world can never stay without a violent reaction on ourselves.
Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.
Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
Nonviolence is the only credible response to the violence we're seeing around the world.
We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating; it can only be an expression of our humanity.
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.
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