Dalai Lama Quotes About Technology

• I think technology really increased human ability, but technology cannot produce compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Technology, Thinking, Compassion

• Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where mother Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Mother, Technology

  Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.80, Univ of California Press

• Without technology humanity has no future, but we have to be careful that we don’t become so mechanised that we lose our human feelings.

  Dalai Lama

  Technology, Feelings, Humanity

• If we human beings rely only on material development, we can’t be sure of a positive outcome. Employing technology motivated by anger and hatred is likely to be destructive. It will only be beneficial if we seek the welfare of all beings. Human beings are the only species with the potential to destroy the world. Because of the risks of unrestrained desire and greed we need to cultivate contentment and simplicity.

  Dalai Lama

  Technology, Hatred, Greed

• One of the expressions of Western over-reliance on technology can be seen in the lack of patience in industrial society. When you deal with technology, everything happens at the touch of a button. This conditions you to become so impatient that when you have an emotional or personal crisis, you don't allow time for the solution to take effect. This leads to all sorts of rash responses, like quarrels, fights and so on.

  Dalai Lama

  Time, Fighting, Technology

• It is my belief that whereas the twentieth century has been a century of war and untold suffering, the twenty-first century should be one of peace and dialogue. As the continued advances in information technology make our world a truly global village, I believe there will come a time when war and armed conflict will be considered an outdated and obsolete method of settling differences among nations and communities.

  Dalai Lama

  War, Believe, Technology

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