The Church is in the world, it is part of the suffering in the world, and though Christ condemned the disciple who struck off the ear of the high priest's servant, our hearts go out in sympathy to all who are moved to violence by the suffering of others. The Church condemns violence, but it condemns indifference more harshly. Violence can be the expression of love, indifference never. One is an imperfection of charity, the other the perfection of egoism. . Graham Greene
Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.
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Chris Hedges
A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made.
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Steven Galloway
Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.
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Naomi Klein
When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it. If we really want to escape this war, we have to stop bringing it with us.
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Brian K. Vaughan
As for the military advantage of such a bombardment, I simply cannot grasp it. I have seen housewives disemboweled, children mutilated; I have seen the old itinerant market crone sponge from her treasure the brains with which they were spattered. I have seen a janitor's...
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Anonymous
More Quotes By Graham Greene
It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.
If only it were possible to love without injury — fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her. The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person...
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.
I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations... I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be...
