"Nelson Mandela went to jail believing in violence,……" — Scilla Elworthy
"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 skills, that they needed to turn one of the most vicious governments the world has known into a democracy. And they did it in a total devotion to non-violence."
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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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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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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from…
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A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.
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He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as…
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There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.
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The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their…
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A lot of people do that kind of nostalgia stuff believing that they were very happy in their teenage years,…
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To believe that one, or even three, mates can supply all the things one needs from one's friends is as…
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We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have…
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and…
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To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that…
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