Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Violence should be kept as a mental concept rather than enacted physically.
- In plain terms
- Keep violence in your thoughts not actions.
- What can you take from it?
- Contain violent impulses within the mind.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Where should violence belong?
- Can violence be purely mental?
Another view
This advice could be dangerous if taken literally in self-defense scenarios.
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