Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

We must stifle the voice of hatred and faction.

Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.

Can we all get along?

Why can't we all just get along?

People, I just want to say, can we all get along? Can we get along?

What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance.

When people are divided, the only solution is agreement.

It has been the way of Rotary to focus thought upon matters in which members are in agreement, rather than upon matters in which they are in disagreement.

If you can sing together, you can live together.

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together.

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

It's easy to focus on the things that divide us. Sometimes too easy.

Ignorance is a menace to peace.

We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.

History is not hatred.

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

We must learn to live together as brothers or we will live separately as fools.

Pluralism, democracy, unity, respect all mean nothing because on the ground, we hate each other

I can't advocate people not liking each other. But... I'd prefer it.

Americans are at our best when we build bridges between us, not walls around us.

In an era in which war and terrorism - at home and abroad - are often based on racial, religious and ethnic differences, rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us increase our survival at a time when an increasingly divided country and world so badly need it.

We're not ashamed to use the word 'peace.'

I think everybody can get along.

Hatred will always give birth to more and more hate, and love has the power to demolish the borders between us.

I know it's a cheesy thing to say, but I just want everyone to be able to get along.