Violence never settles anything right: apart from injuring your own soul, it injures the best cause. It lingers on long after the object of hate has disappeared from the scene to plague the lives of those who have employed it against their foes.
Interpretation
Violence leads to lasting harm, both to the perpetrator and to their cause, impacting lives beyond the immediate conflict.
This quote emphasizes the destructive nature of violence, suggesting that it does not provide true resolution to conflicts. Instead, it ultimately harms the one who engages in it and the causes they advocate for, leaving a lingering negative impact on both the individual and society long after the initial conflict has ended.
In practice
In a discussion on social justice, one might say, 'As Obafemi Awolowo wisely stated, violence never settles anything right.'
After rain comes sunshine; After darkness comes the glorious dawn. There is no sorrow without its alloy of joy; there is no joy without its admixture of sorrow. Behind the ugly terrible mask of misfortune lies the beautiful soothing countenance of prosperity. So, tear the mask!
Even such isTime, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but with age and dust, Who in the dark and silent grave When we have wandered all our ways Shuts up the story of our days, And from which earth, and grave, and dust The Lord shall raise me up, I trust.
Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
It is my fundamental conviction that compassion - the natural capacity of the human heart to feel concern for and connection with another human being - constitutes a basic aspect of our nature shared by all human beings, as well as being the foundation of our happiness. All ethical teachings, whether religious or nonreligious, aim to nurture this innate and precious quality, to develop it and to perfect it.
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
It is with our entire past ... that we desire, will and act ... from this survival of the past it follows that consciousness cannot go through the same state twice. The circumstances may still be the same, but they will act no longer on the same person ... that is why our duration is irreversible.
Is it not strange, that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies!
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