Quote

When we are angry, killing people is too superficial.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Marshall B. Rosenberg
Superficial
Killing
Communication
Angry
People

More quotes by Marshall B. Rosenberg

Image
NVC helps us connect with each other and ourselves in a way that allows our natural compassion to flourish.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
Staying with empathy we allow speakers to touch deeper levels of themselves.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
As radical as it may seem, it is possible to do things only out of play. I believe that to the degree that we engage moment by moment in the playfulness of enriching life- motivated solely by the desire for its enrichment- to that degree are we being compassionate with ourselves.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
Also, think about your intentionality - are you getting lost in the method? or coming from the intentionality, the purpose? You don't want to do the mechanics without the consciousness.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
To practice NVC, it's critical for me to be able to slow down, take my time, to come from an energy I choose, the one I believe that we were meant to come from, not the one I was programmed into.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
Life-Enriching Education: an education that prepares children to learn throughout their lives, relate well to others, and themselves, be creative, flexible, and venturesome, and have empathy not only for their immediate kin but for all of humankind.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
NVC self-forgiveness: connecting with the need we were trying to meet when we took the action that we now regret.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
When we are in contact with our feelings and needs, we humans no longer make good slaves and underlings.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
When I am angry I have a judgment and an unmet need.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
In a Giraffe institution, the head nurse job would be to serve the nurses, not to control them. Teachers are there to serve the students, not control them.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
I never have to worry about another person's response, only how I react to what they say.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
I don't think you can have an authentic connection when one person is diagnosing the other.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
They have most likely said it because they have an unmet need.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
How I choose to look at any situation will greatly affect whether I have the power to change it or make matters worse.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
Use anger as a wake-up call to unmet needs.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
I think that there is a problem with rewards and consequences because in the long run, they rarely work in the ways we hope. In fact, they are likely to backfire.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
With every choice you make, be conscious of what need it serves.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
To be able to hear our own feelings and needs and to empathize with them can free us from depression.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
We are compassionate with ourselves when we are able to embrace all parts of ourselves and recognize the needs and values expressed by each part.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Image
I find that my cultural conditioning leads me to focus attention on places where I am unlikely to get what I want. I developed NVC as a way to train my attention-to shine the light of consciousness-on places that have the potential to yield what I am seeking.
Marshall B. Rosenberg