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Tue, Mar 5, 13 at 2:40
| Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. Hannah Arendt Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy. When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy. |
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- Posted by lilosophie none (My Page) on Tue, Mar 5, 13 at 9:33
| Will we ever learn? These quotes deserve serious contemplation, don't they? |
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- Posted by anneliese_32 6 (My Page) on Tue, Mar 5, 13 at 19:35
| I doubt that humans will ever change for the better. The Greeks already despaired and we still do the same things. |
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