“Truth and love will overcome lies and hatred.”
Václav Havel (1936–2011) playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic
The one-sentence peace message summarizing her ideas. Ch. 3 : The Pilgrimage
Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words (1982)
“Truth and love will overcome lies and hatred.”
Václav Havel (1936–2011) playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058–1111) Persian Muslim theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic
The Deliverance from Error https://www.amazon.com/Al-Ghazalis-Path-Sufism-Deliverance-al-Munqidh/dp/1887752307
Mary Baker Eddy book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
Source: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 571
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916–2008) President of Sri Lanka
Quoted on Archives. Daily News, "Dingiri Banda Wijetunga - the journey to greatness" http://archives.dailynews.lk/2008/09/22/fea01.asp, September 22, 2008.
James Russell Lowell The Present Crisis
St. 5
The Present Crisis (1844)
Context: Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side;
Some great cause, God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight,
Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right,
And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
“But remember, "don't be overcome with evil — overcome evil with good."”
Ysabella Brave (1979) American singer
"Self Esteem" (31 May 2007) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNBgCKvjrb4 <br class="br">Context: I've been asked by a lot of new YouTube people or other singers — all kinds of professions, frankly, as to whether I feel very successful and very loved now that I've got bup-up-up-up subscribers and however many nice comments and sweetness, and I really, really do! I was thinking going into this that the odds were against me — you're online, there's this anonymity, people are mean sometimes, and still considering all that, it's overwhelming the sweetness and the affection that I am getting — I'm every day impressed by this — every day! And there are a lot of horrible, horrible people on here, just like there is in the rest of the world. But remember, "don't be overcome with evil — overcome evil with good."
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Justice in War-Time (1916), p. 27
1910s
“Conquer anger with love, evil with good, meanness with generosity, and lies with truth.”
Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism
Source: Pali Canon, Sutta Pitaka, Khuddaka Nikaya (Minor Collection), Dhammapada, Ch. 17, Verse 223