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Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.

Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.

Thomas Merton
Wisdom, Violence, Cease
Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.129, Macmillan

The God of peace is never glorified by human violence.

Thomas Merton
Peace, Ubuntu, Violence
Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.207, Shambhala Publications

Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.

Thomas Merton
Communication, Broken, Violence
Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.7, New Directions Publishing

There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism and overwork.

Thomas Merton
Fighting, Violence, Form
Thomas Merton (2009). “Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander”, p.81, Image

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