Johan Galtung famous quotes

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By peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, without violence, and creatively- a never-ending process
-- Johan Galtung

#Peace #Mean #Empathy
Marshall took nonviolence a step further - beyond Gandhi.
-- Johan Galtung

#Communication #Steps #Nonviolent Communication
As professor of global peace studies at the International Islamic University of Malaysia I am committed to the ending of war also through criminalization of war, an approach that has not been sufficiently used in spite of the UN Charter outlawing war - with too many loopholes used buy aggressive countries.
-- Johan Galtung

#Country #War #Islamic
The topdog may win the game of force. But not the moral issue - and when that dawns upon him and his allies, change of consciousness sets in, and demoralization starts thawing the frozen heart. The game is over.
-- Johan Galtung

#Heart #Winning #Games
Every religion contains, in varying degrees, elements of the soft and the hard. For the sake of world peace, dialogue within religions and among them must strengthen the softer aspects.
-- Johan Galtung

#Degrees #Elements #World
Peace appeals to the hearts; studies to the brain. Both are needed, indeed indispensable. But equally indispensable is a valid link between brain and heart. And that, in a nutshell, is what peace studies and peace practice are all about.
-- Johan Galtung

#Heart #Practice #Brain
The new book by Nafeez Ahmed, based on very extensive and deep research, is by far the best on the 9/11 syndrome. Articulating and documenting what many feel, and empowering them into action, the book will have an impact on entrenched US empire elites unwilling and unable to take it on. Votes of thanks to Ahmed, and to Interlink!
-- Johan Galtung

#Book #Impact #Empowering
Peace equals ability to handle conflict, with empathy, nonviolence, and creativity...
-- Johan Galtung

#Creativity #Empathy #Conflict
One basic formula for understanding the Community is this: 'Take five broken empires, add the sixth one later, and make one big neo-colonial empire out of it all.'
-- Johan Galtung

#Europe #Broken #Community

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.
People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.
The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.
Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.
I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs

Johan Galtung famous quotes

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