Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.

To kill, in war or in any circumstance, creates a silence. It is right that silence should surround the taking of life. After all, the life taken is not ours to take.

There's nothing wrong with material things as long as you don't lie, cheat and steal.

There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.

I killed one man to save 100,000.

Let's just kill everyone and let God sort them out.

Killing is unavoidable but is nothing to be proud of

No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.

Sentimentalising is anathema, as far as I am concerned. It leads you into ethical problems about violence and killing and eating meat. The whole world becomes topsy-survy if you impose moralities that were evolved within human society on what a blowfly or what a parasite does... there are lots of emotions you can deduce from an animal's behaviour that are correct, but when you start saying it's feeling guilty or thinking or a loved one or mourning, you must be very careful of those feelings.

Do they deserve to die?" but "Do we deserve to kill them?

Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.

There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals.

If some incarnation of evil as unambiguous as Hitler appeared again, I would have no moral qualms about killing the enemy. But in the modern world of moral murkiness, I prefer to keep my hands as clean of enemy blood as possible.

The Time Lords really didn't like genocide. I'm not too keen on it myself. It's the potential you're killing off. What if, one day, there was a good Dalek? What if...

Morally it makes no difference whether a person is killed in war or condemned to starve by the indifference of others.

Can you do that?” Thomas asked. “Huh?” “Kill someone three times.” “I’d figure out a way.

Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.

Does the commandment 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' mean nothing to us? Are we to interpret it as meaning 'Thou shalt not kill except on the grand scale,' or 'Thou shalt not kill except when the national leaders say to do so'?

No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE.

If in order to kill the enemy you have to kill an innocent, don't take the shot. Don't create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

Here's a little tip for you. If you don't like being called a murderer, don't kill people.

I dont partake in assembly-line convenience. I dont say that killing things is bad while I hire people to kill things for me.

A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.

McDonald's announced that it's considering a more humane way of slaughtering its animals. You know they fatten them up and then kill them. You know the same thing they do to their customers, isn't it?