"We are violent. That is a fact. We get angry, we conform, we imitate, we follow, we are aggressive-and aggression takes many forms, the polite, gentle aggresiveness, with a kids glove, persuading you through affection. That is a particular form of violence. Compelling you to think along a patricular line, that is violence. Violence is very, very complex and to understand it, to go into the very depths, one must see the fact first and not just affirm 'We should be non-violent.'
There is only that which is, which is violence. Non-violence is non-fact, not a reality, it is a projection of thought in order to escape from, or to accept violence and pretend that we are becoming non-violent. So can we look at violence free from all that, free from escape, free from ideals, from suppression and actually observe what violence is?"
J. Krishnamurti
"The Flame of Attention"
