Dalai Lama Quotes

The attempt to remove evil from the world by killing a thousand evil - doers, only adds to the evil in the world.

If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.

We've all made bad decisions, but they haven't always been resulting in the deaths of innocent people.

Every time I have done things for political reasons, I have regretted it. Every time I have done what I thought was right, it has come out all right in the end.

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.

It's Not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it's just evil.

The world, the wise world, that never is wrong itself, judges always by events. And if he should use me ill, then I shall be blamed for trusting him: if well, O then I did right, to be sure!--But how would my censurers act in my case, before the event justifies or condemns the action, is the question.

My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

When we judge, we create negative karma. When we say of an action: 'This is right,' or, 'That is wrong,' we create negative karma.

Peace is not something you wish for, � it is something you make, something you are, something you do,�and something you give away.

When you don't give money, it shows that you have the devil's nature.

We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so many enemies, as that extreme self-complacency or superciliousness of manner, which appears to set the opinion of every one else at defiance.

For myself I say deliberately, it is better to have a millstone tied round the neck and be thrown into the sea than to share the enterprises of those to whom the world has turned, and will turn, because they minister to its weaknesses and cover up the awful realities which it shudders to look at.

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

You are completely at choice who you will be today in your interactions with others. Compassionate, kind, giving and forgiving will create one set of probabilities; angry, judgmental, critical and defensive will create another one altogether.

Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation to man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations: as long as you have not shown it to be "uneconomic" you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.

The difficulty is to know conscience from self-interest.

Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not." "Doesn't she? Don't all of you? This is your first taste of the things which may come from your being powerful mages. People will offer you gold, status, even love. I want to know how you will react. If want to know if your teachers will release greedy, thoughtless monsters into the world.

But people didn't forgive you for doing what felt right-that was the last thing they forgave you for.

To be extremely self-centred, only interested in your own satisfaction, always brings negative consequences in the long run.

Do what's right and you'll please some of the people and astound the rest.

Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everything you are.

We hold the future in our hands, together, we must ensure that our grandchildren will not have to ask why we failed to do the right thing, and let them suffer the consequences.

There's less of a connection for a lot of people between the technical decisions we make and the ethical ramifications we are responsible for.

Because we can engineer genetics, because we can telecast real lives-of course we must, right? But are these good things to do? The irony is, the people who will finally answer that question will be the very ones produced by the process.