Dalai Lama Quotes About Democracy

• Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes from the barrel of a gun can be effective only for a short time. In the end, peoples love for truth, justice, freedom, and democracy will triumph. No matter what governments do, the human spirit will always prevail.

  Dalai Lama

  Gun, Power, Government

• China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

  Dalai Lama

  Liberty, Democracy, World

• I am a firm believer in the importance of democracy, not only as the ultimate goal, but also as an essential part of the process.

  Dalai Lama

  Goal, Democracy, Essentials

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• 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

• 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

• In some respects I have been the most unlucky because I have spent more time living as a refugee outside my country than I have spent in Tibet. On the other hand, it has been very rewarding for me to live in a democracy and to learn about the world in a way that we Tibetans had never known before.

  Dalai Lama

  Country, Hands, Democracy

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