Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But…

Thomas Merton
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Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs gestated in the smoke of confabulation. There can be no peace on earth without the kind of inner change that brings man back to his right mind. p. 31 ✨ Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). Gandhi on Non-Violence, p.31, New Directions Publishing
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