Latest Dalai Lama Quotes from Interviews

• Rulers come and go. It's the people who are the real rulers of the country.

  Dalai Lama

  Country, Real, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• Let us have that kind of effort from all, except those child or handicapped or too old. But the many people, they sort of have the opportunity to create trouble or to create a good thing, now should think more seriously, should not indulge any work to create more problems.

  Dalai Lama

  Children, Thinking, Opportunity

  Source: www.kpbs.org

• In a free country, America, or India, and Japan, and many places, democracy country, free country, but still within the sort of rule of law, some injustice, some sort of problems, some discrimination, and also some sort of scandals or the corruptions. These things, you see, they are always in my mind, I think many people agree, lack of moral principle.

  Dalai Lama

  Country, Thinking, Law

  Source: www.kpbs.org

• Therefore we have to make effort through well through every corner, media people, education sort of institution, and family, parents, everywhere. It is our common goal, common interest promote more compassion toward the world.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Media, Goal

  Source: www.kpbs.org

• In my mind of course natural disaster like tsunami, and these things, also I think indirectly may relate to human behavior. But then major sort of problems actually they're due to a lack of moral principle.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Mind, Principles

  Source: www.kpbs.org

• My own share making contribution [to the the well-being of humanity]. So I never feel I am something special.

  Dalai Lama

  Humanity, Special, Share

  Source: www.kpbs.org

• Every sort of seven billion human being have to think about the well-being of humanity.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Humanity, Seven

  Source: www.kpbs.org

• Humanity happy, I get benefit. Humanity in state of trouble, or violence, I cannot escape from that.

  Dalai Lama

  Humanity, Benefits, Violence

  Source: www.kpbs.org

• I one individual human being. One of the seven billion human being. I believe each of us, our future depends on the rest of humanity.

  Dalai Lama

  Believe, Humanity, Seven

  Source: www.kpbs.org

• The invitation come from some institution who really involving so-called my own profession, these fields. And then different universities or education sort of institution, I feel that is the place where the awareness of these things to start and to spread a more human community. So then on that level, yes, I have some obligation.

  Dalai Lama

  Community, Fields, Different

  Source: www.kpbs.org

• When invitation come, then I inquire just to see new place or seeing just the one sort of family, then not much interest.

  Dalai Lama

  Interest, Invitations, New Places

  Source: www.kpbs.org

• The affection is mainly biological factor. Then further sort of strengthening, that religion helps.

  Dalai Lama

  Helping, Affection, Strengthening

  Source: www.kpbs.org

• Without religion, also there is a way, it could be this way, through education, through scientific findings, then you get conviction. Not necessarily really love other, but for their own interest they are showing love, compassion to other like that.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Showing Love, Way

  Source: www.kpbs.org

• Just give food without showing affection, [animals] might not get sort of 100% satisfaction. So they also, you see, when we human beings, we show affection, the poor animal also respond to us.

  Dalai Lama

  Animal, Giving, Might

  Source: www.kpbs.org

• [Animals] appreciate others' affection, they also have the sort of ability to show their own affection. And then as soon as we're born, child, no religious faith.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Children, Animal

  Source: www.kpbs.org

• If you the owner of the dog, really showing not just food but real affection, then dog very much appreciate. Isn't it?

  Dalai Lama

  Dog, Real, Appreciate

  Source: www.kpbs.org

• I can do what my energy, my time, to my other sort of commitment. And then also emotional, religious harmony. So in these two field, now that more or less I think the spirituality or human values in these fields, I may consider my only professional field. The political, national struggle, these are not my profession.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Struggle, Commitment

  Source: www.kpbs.org

• Cats, dogs, and some I mean, birds, many species of mammals, they also have the sort of potential to show affection firstly because of the biological factor.

  Dalai Lama

  Dog, Mean, Cat

  Source: www.kpbs.org

• After I handed over all my authority, I feel now our struggle [for Tibet ] become much, much safer. And me personally, the day I officially handed over, that night, very unusual sound. I am quite free now.

  Dalai Lama

  Struggle, Night, Sound

  Source: www.kpbs.org

• In my childhood, and particularly when I take the responsibility, I already have sort of keen desire, we must change our system. Then as soon as we reach India, 1959, at once we start working for democratization. Now here if remain in a political sort of field, supreme leader, at the same time religious leader, that may become hindrance of proper democracy.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Responsibility, Political

  Source: www.kpbs.org

• Then another thing, now this is mainly for our interest about Tibet, our struggle. Whole struggle depend on within person. For dangerous. Foolish! Not for this only institution or even not only for Buddhist dogma, but before national sort of right, our right. So therefore this struggle must carried by people themselves.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Struggle, People

  Source: www.kpbs.org

• Spirituality actually must be above politics. Or some other sort of business.

  Dalai Lama

  Spirituality

  Source: www.kpbs.org

• We live within the environment. So that directly relates with our survival, our life. So through that way, more concern of well being of humanity, then naturally concerned about environment.

  Dalai Lama

  Humanity, Survival, Way

  Source: www.kpbs.org

• Compassion is concern of others' well being.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Well Being, Concern

  Source: www.kpbs.org

• Climate change has been immense difficulties of pains or illness or hard life on this planet. So through that way, you have sense of concern of the well being, not sky, not just the environment itself.

  Dalai Lama

  Pain, Sky, Hard Life

  Source: www.kpbs.org

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