Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

Read about some squirrelly guy who claims that he just don't believe in fighting, and I wonder how long the rest of us can count on being free.

I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life

I think an appeal to arms and to brute force is unbecoming the age in which we live. Would to God that the time had come when there should be no war, and that religion and peace should reign throughout the world.

My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.

I am opposed to war, to killing people, to any kind of hatred and violence.

I hold that all war is morally wrong and its prosecution a crime. I hold life as sacred and cannot bring myself to join in the slaughter of my fellow men.

Fighting is not my life.

I'm a peaceful creature; I'm vegetarian. I don't like wars.

With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster.

We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.

Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.

I believe in a non-killing future.

It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.

All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.

Aware of the suffering caused by the destruction of life, I am committed to cultivating compassion and learning ways to protect the lives of people, animals, plants, and minerals. I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life.

I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.

I am a pacifist.

Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.

As a person, I'm anti-violence.

There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.

I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.