Scilla Elworthy Quotes
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When faced with world problems - like hunger, overpopulation, nuclear weapons, the arms trade - you may be among those who are overwhelmed by a…
Among
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Change happens at the level of the individual
Change
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Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a different system of thought, different…
Change
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More and more individuals worldwide are realizing that war does not solve conflict, nor resolve long-standing cycles of violence. As more of those who have…
Change
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If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.
Armies
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Dialogue is a non-confrontational communication, where both partners are willing to learn from the other and therefore leads much farther into finding new grounds together
Both
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Anger is like gasoline. If you spray it around and somebody lights a match, you've got an inferno. [But] if we can put our anger…
Anger
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There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.
Astonishing
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We need to learn and to show others that there are tried and tested, powerful ways of containing and resolving conflict which do not require…
Conflict
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The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.
Aid
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Nelson Mandela went to jail believing in violence, and 27 years later he and his colleagues had slowly and carefully honed the skills, the incredible…
Believing
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To discover your mission and put it into action - instead of worrying on the sidelines - is to find peace of mind and a…
Action
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Consistently rated the most peaceable of all countries in the world by the Global Peace Index, Iceland has reduced its military expenditure to zero, has…
All
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I flew aeroplanes, parachuted, walked on my own across the Himalayas - you name it; if it was dangerous, I did it.
Across
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Like many traditional feminists, I became one of the boys, only better. For a while it gave me a buzz to win at their game,…
Became
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If fear grows fat on the energy you feed it, you have to talk it down.
Down
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Wherever there is injustice, there is anger, and anger is like gasoline - if you spray it around and somebody lights a matchstick, you have…
Anger
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