Dalai Lama Quotes

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Love is the real nuclear bomb that destroys all our enemies, because when we love all living beings, we have no enemies.

All that is good in Heaven and on Earth is born of love. This war is not just. This war is not good. Love is the only thing worth fighting for.

Man invents war. Man discovers peace. He invents war from without. He discovers peace from within. War man throws. Peace man sows. The smile of war is the flood of human blood. The smile of peace is the love, below, above.

A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

I think 'Make love, not war' might be the most profound statement that's ever been made.

I am opposed to war, to killing people, to any kind of hatred and violence.

We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.

Peace will not be built, however, by people with bitterness in their hearts.

Human nature must be changed if we are ever to have an end to war or to correct the wrong situations that make our lives uneasy and our hearts sore. Now Christianity, the power of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit of God, is the only force that can change people for good.

'War and Peace' is about relationships: family relationships, loving relationships, relationships at war... it's a really young story as well.

Non-injuring has to be attained by him who would be free. No one is more powerful than he who has attained perfect non-injuring. No one could fight, no one could quarrel, in his presence. Yes, his very presence, and nothing else, means peace, means love wherever he may be. Nobody could be angry or fight in his presence. Even the animals, ferocious animals, would be peaceful before him.

It's much easier to be at peace than it is to hate somebody. It's much easier to love somebody than to fight with them.

A very great man once said you should love your enemies and that's not a bad piece of advice. We can love them but, by God, that doesn't mean we're not going to fight them.

To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style.

If people who say they love their children meant it, would there be war? And would there be division of nationalities - would there be these separations?

The motto of war is: "Let the strong survive; let the weak die." The motto of peace is: "Let the strong help the weak to survive."

All disasters stem from us. Why is there a war? Perhaps because now and then I might be inclined to snap at my neighbour. Because I and my neighbour and everyone else do not have enough love. Yet we could fight war and all its excrescences by releasing each day, the love which is shackled inside us, and giving it a chance to live.

We can forgive [the Arabs] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with [the Arabs] when they love their children more than they hate us...

Human beings seem unable to live without war, but they are also unable to live without love.

What's so funny about peace, love, and understanding?

I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.