Amanda

“There is an old saying, “Never ascribe to malice what can better be explained by stupidity.” That’s good advice.”
― Rory Miller, ConCom: Conflict Communication A New Paradigm in Conscious Communication

“If you deny reality, you cannot control reality.”
― Rory Miller

“Violence never solved anything.” This platitude is so patently and obviously false that it takes some pretty special mental gymnastics to say it, much less believe it. The fact is that some things, especially dangerous things happening very fast, can ONLY be solved by violence. This adage frequently infuriates professionals because sometimes the problem they have solved with violence was their own survival or the survival of someone they loved. Survival is pretty hard to devalue.”
― Rory Miller, Violence: A Writer's Guide

“it is difficult to solve a problem that you are almost entirely ignorant about. You cannot work for peace while ignoring violence any more than a doctor can create treatments while refusing to study disease.”
― Rory Miller, ConCom: Conflict Communication A New Paradigm in Conscious Communication