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"I have never been attracted to any kind of violence."
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"Never has an angry word spoken ever made this world better."
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"If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music... That would be so much cheaper than bombs."
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"I have never been attracted to any kind of violence."
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"Peace hath her victories No less renowned than war."
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"Ez for war I call it murder - There you hev it plain and flat I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment for that."
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"But strength doesn't always mean brute force. You don't have to kick ass to be a fighter. Violence doesn't equal strength. Lead your army by example. There's a better answer to all this. War isn't going to solve anything, but it will tear our two worlds apart, and there will be casualties, including humans. There's nothing heroic about this war. It will lead to a destruction unlike anything you or I have ever seen."
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"Nicholson Baker can't seem to get enough of the wisdom of Gandhi and cites at length an open letter he wrote to the British people on 3 July 1940. "Your soldiers are doing the same work of destruction as the Germans," wrote the Mahatma. "I want you to fight Nazism without arms." He went on to say: "Let them take possession of your beautiful island, with your many beautiful buildings. You will give all these, but neither your souls, nor your minds. If these gentlemen choose to occupy your homes, you will vacate them. If they do not give you free passage out, you will allow yourself, man, woman and child, to be slaughtered, but you will refuse to owe allegiance to them." I must say that everything in me declines to be addressed in that tone of voice."
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"If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm."
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"Actual violence has no attraction for me at all."
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"Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting."
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"It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought."
Life
"I don't sit there and speculate. I'm not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually."
Time
"I have never been attracted to any kind of violence."
Pacifism
"I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter."
Nothing
"I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage."
Marriage
"Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance."
War
"Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse."
Now
"On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information."
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"I will never retire."
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"I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip."
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