Dalai Lama Quotes

I hope that my family will continue in another thousand years.

The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.

A supervillain must continue to exist.

A bullpen seething with mischief.

The only natural human beings seem to be those who are making trouble.

History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.

Well, some people say I'm pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find?

Decades ago, our ancestors realized that it is not just political ideology, religious belief, race, or nationalism that is to blame for a warring world. Rather, they determined that it was the fault of human personality - of humankind's inclination towards evil, in whatever form that is. They divided into factions that sought to eradicate those qualities they believed responsible for the world's disarray.

if reason ruled the world would history even exist?

The triumph of the Confederacy... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of progress and damp the sprits of its friends all over the civilized world... [The American Civil War] is destined to be a turning point, for good or evil, of the course of human affairs.

Unconditional love is a lofty ideal, but unconditional hate is a fact well documented by history.

Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.

Beneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow. In the end it is a story of the ineluctable conflict between good and evil, daylight and darkness, the White City and the Black.

Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.

A German philosopher once wrote that he who fights monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself.

Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.

For some strange reason, we believe that anyone who lived before we were born was in some peculiar way a different kind of human being from any we have come in contact with in our own lifetime. This concept must be changed; we must realize in our bones that almost everything in time and history has changed except the human being.

With every exertion, the best of men can do but a moderate amount of good; but it seems in the power of the most contemptible individual to do incalculable mischief.

The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it has become.

If you study the history of mankind, it seems to be a history of violence. Certainly the history of art, whether you look at paintings or movies or plays or whatever, is just a litany of murder and death.

Sometimes humanity is the reason we can't have nice things

The world is divided by two different tribes. The people who are assholes and the people who are not.

Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.

History repeats herself.

Nobody wants anything bad to happen; the other side isn't evil.