Nhat Hanh Quotes About Conflict

Quotes about: Conflict

• When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try hard to say or to do something back to get relief from his suffering. That is how conflict escalates.

  Nhat Hanh

  Anger, Suffering, Trying

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2001). “Anger”, p.55, Penguin

• Survival means the survival of human kind as a whole, not just a part of it. If the South cannot survive, then the North is going to crumble. If countries of Third World cannot pay their debts, you are going to suffer here in the North. If you do not take care of the Third World, your well-being is not going to last, and you will not be able to continue living in the way you have been much longer. It is leaping out at us already. You cannot leave the job to the governments or the political scientists alone. You have to do it yourself.

  Nhat Hanh

  Country, Jobs, Mean

• The other person has wrong perceptions about himself and about us. And we have wrong perceptions about ourselves and the other person. And that is the foundation for violence and conflict and war.

  Nhat Hanh

  War, Perception, Foundation

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

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