#gentle

Ladies and gentlemen, I take office at a time in which the world is living in extreme contradictions. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

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My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho' she isn't always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce. ↗

— Charles Farrar Browne

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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

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Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength. ↗

— Saint Francis de Sales

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But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

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War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle. ↗

— Gilbert Parker

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Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But being a Gentleman is a matter of choice. ↗

— Vin Diesel

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[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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Now, with regard to the people who have done things we call "terrorism," I'm confident they have been expressing their pain in many different ways for thirty years or more. Instead of our empathically receiving it when they expressed it in much gentler ways -- they were trying to tell us how hurt they felt that some of their most sacred needs were not being respected by the way we were trying to meet our economic and military needs -- they got progressively more agitated. Finally, they got so agitated that it took horrible form. ↗

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

#empathy #gentleness #nonviolence #peace #terrorism