"When faced with world problems - like hunger,……" — Scilla Elworthy
"When faced with world problems - like hunger, overpopulation, nuclear weapons, the arms trade - you may be among those who are overwhelmed by a feeling of "Help! What on earth can I, just one person, do about this?" Take heart. That's a sane response. It's the basis for a whole new attitude to world problems, where change at the level of the individual is more and more recognised as essential to change in huge world systems."
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Scilla Elworthy
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17 Quotes by Scilla Elworthy
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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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Consistently rated the most peaceable of all countries in the world by the Global Peace Index, Iceland has reduced its…
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