Dalai Lama Quotes

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

In the Mediterranean you have a choice. Either you fight or you cooperate.

Surely diplomacy is needed when there is conflict, not when there is harmony.

Stop the fighting and find the middle ground.

The old notion: security brings peace. The new notion: peace brings security.

Peace is hard, but we know that it is possible

We must … show that peace and prosperity can exist side by side.

It's not going to be easy to create a world where both sides prefer peace, but we have to try.

We are not seeking... and looking for war with any nations. We are seeking peace and stability among all the nations in the region.

When neighbours interact with each other, it is only natural that sometimes they will run into problems of some kind or another. As long as they respect each other, properly manage differences, and pursue mutual benefits, there will be harmonious sound instead of jarring noises.

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.

The ongoing conflict between us has caused heavy suffering to both peoples. The future can and must be different. Both our peoples are destined to live together side by side, on this small piece of land. This reality we cannot change.

Peace must be more than the absence of war.

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.

The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.

The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation.

The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace.

Societies can easily talk themselves into conflict and misery. But they can also talk, and act, their way out.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.

'Zero problems with neighbors' is a value. But another equally important value is to establish peace.