Violence is not the answer, it doesn’t work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the greatest atrocities in the history of the world have occurred... The nature of human beings must change. We must cultivate love and compassion.

Martin Scorsese
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Nelson Mandela said: “Violence is not the answer, it doesn’t work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the greatest atrocities in the history of the world have occurred and we need to cultivate love and compassion.” It’s true that we can no longer use violence to solve our problems and we must cultivate love and compassion, but we also need to recognize that we can’t stop violence. We can only hope that as society as a whole becomes less violent, as individuals become less violent as well.

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