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Quotes from Engaged Buddhist Reader: Ten Years of Engaged Buddhist Publishing — Thích Nhất Hạnh

1926–2022 Vietnam

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In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

Engaged Buddhist Reader: Ten Years of Engaged Buddhist Publishing (1996)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Thích Nhất Hạnh (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.