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In Buddhist teaching, ignorance is considered the fundamental cause of violence - ignorance... about the separation of self and other... about the consequences of our actions.

— Sharon Salzberg

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.

— Patanjali

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

— Emma Goldman

Ignorance is a menace to peace.

— Paul Harris

In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.

— Paul Harris

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

— Dalai Lama

Violence is a tool of the ignorant.

— Flip Wilson

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

— Plato

There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed.

— Benjamin Robbins Curtis

✗Opposing Perspectives

Non-violence is the essence of the entire Buddha's teaching, and the practice of non-violence is the entire essence of the practice of Buddha dharma, Buddhist spirituality, in one's life.

— Lobsang Tenzin