Dalai Lama Quotes

Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

We know more about war than we do about peace.

We can't afford to be killing one another.

I don't want negative. I want peace.

It just was a gradual development over the years. I mean last year was 'all you need is love.' This year, it's 'all you need is love and peace, baby.' Give peace a chance, and remember Love. The only hope for us is peace. Violence begets violence. You can have peace as soon as you like if we all pull together. You're all geniuses, and you're all beautiful. You don't need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are. Get out there and get peace, think peace, and live peace and breathe peace, and you'll get it as soon as you like.

If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

War forgets peace. Peace forgives war. War is the death of the life human. Peace is the birth of the Life Divine. Our vital passions want war. Our psychic emotions desire peace.

Peace will come With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall.

Man invents war. Man discovers peace. He invents war from without. He discovers peace from within. War man throws. Peace man sows. The smile of war is the flood of human blood. The smile of peace is the love, below, above.

Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could, for all those born beneath an angry star, lest we forget how fragile we are.

Nonviolence is the only way. Even if you achieve your goal by violent means there are always side effects, and these can be worse than the problem. Violence is against human nature.

We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live.

Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both.

My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.

We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?

On this International Day of Peace, let us all honor those who have suffered from violence. Let us hold in our hearts the ideal of peace.

Peace! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies! But beautiful as songs of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise.

Most people are only too delighted to wreck each other's heads. And for the tiny minority who do their pathetic best not to, this world is going to go right ahead and make sure they do it anyway.

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

If thou art of elephant-strength or of lion-claw, still peace is, in my opinion, better than strife.