"Every act of violence is also a message……" — Jean Vanier

"Every act of violence is also a message that needs to be understood. (23-24)"

— Jean Vanier

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80 Quotes by Jean Vanier

Jean Vanier has 80 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Communion is mutual trust, mutual belonging; it is the to-and-fro movement of love between two people where each one gives…
So many in our world today are suffering from isolation, war and oppression. So much money is spent on the…
So we need places, laboratories, the creation of places which could be each one of our homes, where we invite…
Community means caring: caring for people. Dietrich Bonhoeffer says: "He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren…
Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.
He who is or has been deeply hurt has a RIGHT to be sure he is LOVED.
The friend of time doesn't spend all day saying: 'I haven't got time.' He doesn't fight with time. He accepts…
Those we most often exclude from the normal life of society, people with disabilities, have profound lessons to teach us
Stop looking for peace. Give yourselves where you are. Stop looking at yourselves, look instead at your brothers and sisters…
I remember that throughout history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers…
In any case, community is not about perfect people. It is about people who are bonded to each other, each…
We all know well that we can do things for others and in the process crush them, making them feel…

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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