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Quotes from The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace — M. Scott Peck

1936–2005 United States

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The problem of evil is perhaps the most fundamental of all human problems.
True community is always in a state of almost constant terror at the problem of human evil.

The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace (1987)

In any case, in Vietnam it was the extraordinary power of nationalism, not communism, that brought the United States to its knees. To oppose legitimate nationalism is to do so at our peril.

The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace (1987)

The only real route to peace is through self-purification. We must purge ourselves of our own pride, our need to control, and our unwillingness to suffer for the sake of others. Peacemaking begins inside each of us.

The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace (1987)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: M. Scott Peck (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.