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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

Let us love temperately, things violent last not.

Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.

Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

Violence is absolutely not our method.

Even in the most peaceful communities, an appetite for violence shows up in dreams, fantasies, sports, play, literature, movies and television. And, so long as we don't transform into angels, violence and the threat of violence - as in punishment and deterrence - is needed to rein in our worst instincts.

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

I'm so fascinated by how people destroy each other and love each other.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.