Dalai Lama Quotes

I learned firsthand that there would simply be no wars if people engaged in real conversation.

I don't think that confrontation always leads to a solution.

Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.

But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them.

I have always viewed my role as a sort of ambassador or bridge between groups to help provide a dialog.

It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

War is what happens when language fails.

You ought to dialogue first before you start throwing spears. And I think the U.N. provides an opportunity for dialogue.

You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.

Our position is that we can sit down and talk to try to solve our problems through dialogue.

If you listen, you'll learn. If you talk over each other, you don't accomplish anything.

The fact that talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable to war.

Talk brings opponents together.

When men understand what each other mean, they see for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless.

You have to talk to them before you think about bombing them.

Negotiations can resolve differences, cooperation can replace confrontation and development can create a win-win scenario.

I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.

'Dialogue' is not a dirty word; it's our word.

Me and 50 had a conversation. We good.

I know the pros and cons of not being diplomatic.

So long as human history continues, we will face the perennial challenge of realizing, maintaining and strengthening peace through dialogue, of making dialogue the sure and certain path to peace. We must uphold and proclaim this conviction without cease, whatever coldly knowing smiles or cynical critiques may greet us.

You must fight others, but through peace, and through dialogue, and through education.

The best weapon is to sit down and talk.

All of you, leave," Vlad responded curtly. "That's not nice," I mumbled. "You should talk to them before you bite them, too. Common curtesy.