Dalai Lama Quotes

Sectarianism is a real problem, but it should be addressed by people engaging with each other - reconciliation.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Peace is hard, but we know that it is possible

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

I believe that a culture of peace must be the essential foundation of our efforts for peace.

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.

In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

Through my years of working on war and peace in Africa, I have learned that there are solutions to some of the greatest human rights challenges, and we all can be a part of those solutions.

Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

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

You know, the pessimism which exists now in the Middle East existed in Northern Ireland, but we stayed at it.

Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.

John Paul II, above all, managed to contain the huge mass of frustration, of hate that had accumulated in that region, in favour of a peaceful transition. This was, without doubt, something that changed European history.

Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.

Religions themselves are... peace-loving. They can also be a constructive force in peace-building, and this also applies to the Middle East.

Human Rights Watch wants Rwandans to be able to speak freely about their ethnic hatreds, and to allow political parties connected with the defeated genocide army to campaign freely for power.

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

Every new president flatters himself that he, kinder and gentler, is beginning the world anew. Yet, when Barack Obama in his inaugural address reached out to Muslims by saying, 'To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect,' his formulation was needlessly defensive and apologetic.

The Jews and Arabs should sit down and settle their differences like good Christians.

… dialogue is essential to winning the hearts and minds of moderate elements in societies vulnerable to radicalism.

Peace with justice is very difficult. My people need both, but we need peace more.

We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but the means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.