In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.

People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.

When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight.

One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.