Ideology of Peace
POSITIVE STATUS QUOISM
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enemy can yield such beneficial results that your
former enemy could one day turn out to be your
friend.
VIOLENCE IS THE RESULT OF FRUSTRATION
One advantage of positive status quoism is that it
obviates the baneful effects of frustration that come
from a sense of deprivation. Bright prospects are
discernible in all situations, however unfavourable
those situations might appear. The miraculous
benefit of positive status quoism is that it gives
human beings unlimited courage. It saves them in
all situations from becoming so discouraged that all
doors appear closed, and they fail to identify any
viable course of action.
Violence results from a feeling of deprivation, while
peace results from a sense of discovery. Those who
have the notion that they have been deprived of
what is rightfully theirs suffer perennially from
negative psychology. It is this negativism that
frequently takes the form of violence. But those who
live with the positive feeling that they have
