Dalai Lama Quotes

Free Tibet before free trade.

The efforts of governments alone will never be enough. In the end, the people must choose and the people must help themselves.

I think many people knows what I am thinking. The whole world knows I am not seeking independence, therefore is many Tibetan disappointed, and also some of our supporters - many Indians, many Europeans, many Americans are also disappointed because I am not seeking independence.

The last great struggle for our rights; the battle for our own civilization, is entirely with ourselves, and the problem is to be solved by us.

When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.

I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.

The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Before, Indian people had been so defeated, they were always looking for outsiders, for the government, to somehow come in and fix things. But now, they seem to realize that they're the only ones who can save themselves.

Men must make their history themselves through their own actions

Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.

As a first step, we should recognize that the Armenian people's fight for national self-determination is first and foremost the duty and task of the Armenian people themselves. We do not believe in benevolent friends, the inevitable triumph of justice, or covertly and cleverly manipulating the superpowers. If we are to achieve national self-determination, then we ourselves, the Armenian people, will have to fight for it. We believe in the power of organized masses and in the capacity of our people to determine their own future. We believe in revolution

I'm not going to let other people set my limitations.

We may find it convenient to live with the illusion that circumstances or other people are responsible for the quality of our lives, but the reality is that we are responsible-response-able-for our choices.

The wide world is full of people wanting help, Jon. Would that some could find the courage to help themselves. - Lord Commander Mormont

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands

Free people will set the course of history.

Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty...

Do not wait for me to do something for your rights. It's your world and you can change it.

You can only accomplish your object in life by complete disregard of the opinions of other people.

My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.

We can't live other people's lives for them. Even if we love them.

She believed not in divine salvation but in the proposition that we poor mortals are fully capable of saving ourselves, if conditions and inclinations are right, and the evidence of this potential is found in the smallest of gestures, like the uncertain resting of a large hand on a bony shoulder.

I believe that every people and every nation has the right to be free and independent.

Diamonds aren't a girl's best friend. Freedom is.