Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

The fact is that when you make the other suffer, he will try to find relief by making you suffer more. The result is an escalation of suffering on both sides.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.

Violence is a great breeder of violence.

Aggression only breeds more aggression. It only creates more fear and anger.

War begets war. It produces outraged and humiliated and furious people. That is almost invariably the case.

I decided there and then to sue the bastards.

If they play dirty, then you play dirty.

I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.

An escalating, violent tit-for-tat may lead to terrorism.

In violence, we forget who we are.

I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore.

Who sows fear, reaps weapons.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

A bullet can kill the enemy, but a bullet can also produce an enemy, depending on whom that bullet strikes.

I mean if someone you know pushes a button you're gonna strike back out.

I'm happy to report that everybody whose face I've wanted to punch on Earth has already been punched.

I've never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my heart. If this was another time, I'd be packing a piece.

I fought fire with oil.

I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

Aggression only moves in one direction - it creates more aggression.

Answer a violent action with another action still more violent.

Violence breeds counter-violence.

When you tell a fellow to go to hell, you’d better make sure that you can get him there.

Once blood is shed in a national quarrel, reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.