"Consistently rated the most peaceable of all countries……" — Scilla Elworthy
"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 no armed forces, and has reduced the inequality gap between rich and poor."
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17 Quotes by Scilla Elworthy
Scilla Elworthy has 17 quotes on this site.
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When faced with world problems - like hunger, overpopulation, nuclear weapons, the arms trade - you may be among those…
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Change happens at the level of the individual
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Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.
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We need to learn and to show others that there are tried and tested, powerful ways of containing and resolving…
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The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.
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Nelson Mandela went to jail believing in violence, and 27 years later he and his colleagues had slowly and carefully…
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To discover your mission and put it into action - instead of worrying on the sidelines - is to find…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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