Dalai Lama Quotes

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

People need to be made conscious of a very simple reality: we have no choice but to share this planet, this small blue sphere floating in the vast reaches of space, with all of our fellow 'passengers.'

We are evolving as one species - not only as Americans, Syrians, Russians, Chinese, and jihadists. We cannot attack one without inflicting forms of violence and destruction upon ourselves. This is our new reality.

We need a wider sense of community because we're all on the same planet.

We must cultivate a universal responsibility toward each other and extend it to the planet that we have to share

No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.

We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world.... We are partners with the rest. What affects mankind isinevitably our affair as well as the nations of Europe and Asia.

We are a profoundly interconnected species, as the global economic and ecological crises reveal in vivid and frightening detail. We must embrace the simple fact that we are dependent on and accountable to one another.

If you actually get down to the nitty-gritty of the average Pakistani, the average Indian, the average whoever, what you really do know emotionally is that they're exactly the same.

It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds. When we clearly recognize this reality and ground ourselves in it, we are compelled to take a strict accounting of our way of life.

Today the fate of humankind is even more crucially linked than ever before. The boundaries between the problems of 'others' and 'our' problems are being increasingly erased.

Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.

Global health issues remind us - perhaps more than any other issue - that we are all children of the same extended family.

No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity.

Think of all the different features from Asian to African to Aboriginal to Caucasian. But we are all within the same species, Homo Sapiens.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Mankind is a single body and each nation is a part of that body. We must never say "What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?" If there is such an illness, we must concern ourselves with it as though we were having that illness.

Today we live in a global village but we don’t have our global elders to guide and inspire us.

Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.

For weal or for woe, the peoples of mankind are knit together far closer than ever before..

Our country is the world — our countrymen are all mankind

We're one people, and we all live in the same house. Not the American house, but the world house.

My space expedition has changed my perspective towards people. Looking down at the Earth, we could not see borders or people with different nationalities. It was then that realisation dawned on us that all of us are a group of human beings and citizens of the universe.

I believe in a kind of literature which makes clear that, at a deeper level, below the surface, we are tied together through invisible but existing threads. A kind of literature which talks about a lively, ever-changing world of unity, of which we are a small, but not insignificant part.

Humans have to realise they're not individuals but individual parts of the same organism, with responsibility to each other.