"Plans to exact retribution are never going to make us safer."

-- Marshall B. Rosenberg

#Communication Quotes #Retribution Quotes #Nonviolent Communication Quotes

“The United Nations should come in and take over Liberia, not temporarily, but for life. To make Liberians believe in democracy, to make us believe in human rights, they need to go in and just seize control of the country. That is the only way Liberia will ever become the kind of country it was supposed to be.”
“I do not comprehend those rules of conduct that make us so content with self and so cold to those we love. I detest prudence, I even hate (suffer me to say so) those duties of friendship which substitute propriety for interest, and circumspection for feeling. How shall I say it? I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by me.”
“I am but God's finger, John. If he would condemn Elizabeth, she will be condemned.”
“What is poverty, if not violence. Like, the number of people who die every year from starvation and from hunger and poverty is in the tens of millions.”
“We didn't really expect to achieve anything outside of the UK, and it just went crazy. It's just crazy that people know our music. We're just humbled by it.”
“Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.”
“I am pleased to inform you of the decision of the Government of the Republic of Iraq to allow the return of the United Nations weapons inspectors to Iraq without conditions.”

Source : "Iraq agrees to weapons inspections", www.cnn.com. September 17, 2002.
“After his kisses and hugs it feels like without them my body will fall apart into pieces.”

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