"If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts……" — Scilla Elworthy
"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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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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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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Consistently rated the most peaceable of all countries in the world by the Global Peace Index, Iceland has reduced its…
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More Armies Quotes
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and…
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Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of…
— Joseph Addison
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The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to…
— Albert Camus
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For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however…
— Winston Churchill
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Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to…
— Kofi Annan
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God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and…
— Jean Anouilh
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Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'... Rule 2 is: Do…
— Bernard Law Montgomery
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Evil does exist in the world. A non-violent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al Qaeda's…
— Barack Obama
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The students I've been with these twenty years are looking for a world where it becomes a little easier to…
— Colman McCarthy
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If you are situated at a great distance from the enemy, and the strength of the two armies is equal,…
— Sun Tzu
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The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue…
— Sun Tzu
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When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out…
— Duke of Wellington
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