Scilla Elworthy Quotes

#1. Change happens at the level of the individual

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#2. Consistently rated the most peaceable of all countries in the world by the Global Peace Index, Iceland has reduced its military expenditure to zero, has no armed forces, and has reduced the inequality gap between rich and poor.

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#3. This question: 'How do I deal with a bully without becoming a thug in return?' has been with me ever since I was a child.

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#4. I have a little mantra: 'My fear grows fat on the energy I feed it. And if it grows very big, it probably happens.'

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#5. There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.

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#6. To discover your mission and put it into action - instead of worrying on the sidelines - is to find peace of mind and a heart full of love.

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#7. Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a different system of thought, different language, and having fresh visions of the future.

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#8. If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.

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#9. We need to learn and to show others that there are tried and tested, powerful ways of containing and resolving conflict which do not require the use of force.

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#10. Dialogue is a non-confrontational communication, where both partners are willing to learn from the other and therefore leads much farther into finding new grounds together

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#11. The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.

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#12. Like many traditional feminists, I became one of the boys, only better. For a while it gave me a buzz to win at their game, but ultimately, that kind of power just goes nowhere. Traditional feminism excludes men and so perpetuates conflict. I am not interested in warring about power.

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#13. If fear grows fat on the energy you feed it, you have to talk it down.

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#14. Your 'hara' is here, where your uterus is if you're a woman, where the tummy sticks out if you're a man, the centre of gravity of the human body. It is the synthesis of our intellect, body and spirit, and by developing our consciousness of it, we can become incredibly rooted.

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#15. I flew aeroplanes, parachuted, walked on my own across the Himalayas - you name it; if it was dangerous, I did it.

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#16. Anger is like gasoline. If you spray it around and somebody lights a match, you've got an inferno. [But] if we can put our anger inside an engine, it can drive us forward.

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