Dalai Lama Quotes

If you want to end terrorism, you have to stop being terrorists

Revenge tries to solve the problem of vulnerability. If I strike back, I transfer vulnerability from myself to the other. And yet by striking back I produce a world in which my vulnerability to injury is increased by the likelihood of another strike. So it seems as if I'm getting rid of my vulnerability and instead locating it with the other, but actually I'm heightening the vulnerability of everyone and I'm heightening the possibility of violence that happens between us.

The world hates us, but the bottom line is we're gonna have to show the world why they hate us by bombing the hell out of some people that have been hurting us. That's all. That's the end of it.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

We need to respond to the mood of the people - that we must take the lives of the other side as well.

Who sows fear, reaps weapons.

The snake will always bite back.

Violence breeds counter-violence.

They fucked us and we've got to try and fuck them.

Violence is the only way to answer violence.

Violence always leads to more violence…. To the conqueror comes a conqueror.

I put bounties on guys. And the guys tried to take me out, a guy tried to take a cheap shot on me, I put a bounty on him, right now.

Violence always thrived on counter violence.

Violence will only increase the cycle of violence.

One bleeding-heart type asked me in a recent interview if I did not agree that 'violence begets violence.' I told him that it is my earnest endeavor to see that it does. I would like very much to ensure - and in some cases I have - that any man who offers violence to his fellow citizen begets a whole lot more in return than he can enjoy.

I have observed that whenever you try to hit somebody, there is a tendency for them to try to hit you back.

If you take, we will take back. Steal from us, and we will rob you blind. When you squeeze, we will hit. This is the way the world is made now.

What did our nation ever do to provoke these madly vicious enemies? What is seen as injustice in one place is seen as just requital in the other.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

For hostile word let hostile word be paid.

When something horrible is done to you, the natural impulse is to strike back.

Hey, you want to hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.

If they play dirty, then you play dirty.

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.

If someone messes with me, I'm going to mess with them.