{"id":916,"date":"2009-11-11T11:47:31","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T11:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/11\/patriotic-veterans-day-quotes-the-buddha-on-war.html"},"modified":"2009-11-11T11:47:31","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T11:47:31","slug":"patriotic-veterans-day-quotes-the-buddha-on-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/11\/patriotic-veterans-day-quotes-the-buddha-on-war.html","title":{"rendered":"Patriotic Veteran&#8217;s Day Quotes: The Buddha on War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/veterans_day_quotes_meaning.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"veterans_day_quotes_meaning.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/124\/import\/assets_c\/2009\/11\/veterans_day_quotes_meaning-thumb-200x133-9308.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt;float: right\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/span>by <i><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0861715160\/beliefnet\">Ethan Nichtern<\/a><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>I thought this was a good <a href=\"http:\/\/www.famous-quotes-and-quotations.com\/patriotic-quotes.html\">patriotic quote<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/jim-thomas\/veterans-day-how-many-day_b_350258.html\">Veterans Day<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><i><strong>For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time:<br \/>\nHatred ceases by love alone, this is an eternal law.<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n<p>-The Dhammapada<br \/>Sayings of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dharma.org\/\">Buddha<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My Thought of the Day: Let&#8217;s not forget that while we honor all current and past <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.theatlantic.com\/2009\/11\/obama_thanks_his_veteran_supporters.php\">veterans<\/a> for their sacrifice, that we might also hope eventually our society stops creating more veterans. <a href=\"http:\/\/thepage.time.com\/2009\/11\/10\/honoring-veterans\/\">Honoring veterans<\/a> is a great and meaningful act, but one I truly hope no longer exists in 100 years, for lack of former soldiers to honor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ethan Nichtern I thought this was a good patriotic quote for Veterans Day: For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: Hatred ceases by love alone, this is an eternal law. -The DhammapadaSayings of the Buddha My Thought of the Day: Let&#8217;s not forget that while we honor all current and past&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everybody-hurts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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