Cases Quote by Dalai Lama

If you resort to violent methods because the other side has destroyed your monastery, for example, you then have lost not only your monastery,…

— Dalai Lama

There is a history which has to be reversed, and that is the demolition of our temples.

— Subramanian Swamy

To keep a faith pure, man had better retire to a monastery.

— Walter Lippmann

Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

There is one big misunderstanding of the monastics leaving society.

— Shane Claiborne

We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that…

— Alain de Botton

All is lost. Monks, monks, monks!

— Henry VIII of England

“the monastery is not a place to hide from problems; it is a place to face them, whether they are personal sin, human brokenness,…

— Carrie Gress

If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed .

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.

— T. S. Eliot

I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the 10th century or earlier disfigured, defaced, you realise that something terrible happened. I…

— V. S. Naipaul

I usually point out that most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of…

— Charles Francis Richter