Quote #17

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

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  2. People have confidence in women to get them out of trouble.
  3. Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
  4. The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.
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  8. The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.

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