The gratification of desire is not happiness. – Daisaku Ikeda
Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented. – Daisaku Ikeda

The gratification of desire is not happiness. – Daisaku Ikeda
Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented. – Daisaku Ikeda
Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness? – Daisaku Ikeda
The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories. – Daisaku Ikeda
The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very difficult country, but they were a Mafia family. If you said anything against that regime or that family you would be killed instantly. – Dominic Cooper