"World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion."
- Dalai Lama XIV
"Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace."
"Each one of us is responsible for reducing the negative potential of every situation we have to face."
"From the Buddhist point of view, all living beings -- that is, beings with feelings, experiences, and sensations -- are considered equal. Human beings can live without eating meat. As human beings, I ..."
"Weapons never stay in their boxes. Once a weapon has been manufactured, sooner or later someone will use it. If it were possible to bring about true and lasting peace by force of arms, then we should ..."
"War is massacre. It is 100 per cent negative."
"Violence can only breed more violence and suffering. Our struggle must remain non-violent and free of hatred."
"There is no need for temples, no need forcomplicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophie is kindness."
- Dalai Lama
"The theory of emptiness…is the deep recognition that there is a fundamental disparity between the way we perceive the world, including our own existence in it, and the way things actually are."
"To say 'I want to have sex with this person' is to express a desire which is not intellectually directed in the way that 'I want to eradicate poverty in the world' is an intellectually directed desire..."