„Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear, violence and non-violence.“

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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„This deep meditation brings forth non-fear, non-anger, and non-despair, the strengths we need for our work.“
— Thich Nhat Hanh
„Many things that erupt in rape or violence, or battery and so on, are happening when a woman is pushing that button of fear and dependency.“
— Camille Paglia
„I feel that this way of non-violence is vital because it is the only way to reestablish the broken community. It is the method which seeks to implement the just law by appealing to the conscience of the great decent majority who through blindness, fear, pride or irrationality have allowed their consciences to sleep.“
— Jr.
„Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear.“
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
„… And I, who timidly hate life, fear death with fascination. I fear this nothingness that could be something else, and I fear it as nothing and as something else simultaneously, as if gross horror and non-existence could coincide there, as if my coffin could entrap the eternal breathing of a bodily soul, as if immortality could be tormented by confinement. The idea of hell, which only a satanic soul could have invented seems to me to have derived from this sort of confusion - a mixture of two different fears that contradict and contaminate each other.“
— Fernando Pessoa
„We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.“
— Jim Morrison