On British colonialism, Calcutta 1941
Sponsored by kings and ministers the colonialists sent out a great army of bandits, calling them traders. They introduced new forms of living, but their laws were only good for the educated and wealthy. As for the poor, their small livelihoods are sucked like blood from all their offices. It is in this way that the so-called wonders of the world were built, such as railroads and high buildings.

I am an astute beggar, who spent his life listening. I know what I'm talking about.

Poem, Tibet 1946
In Tibet, everything that is old

Is a work of Buddha
And everything that is new
Is a work of the Devil
This is the sad tradition of our country

Newpaper article, Tibet Mirror, Kalimpong, 1938
In olden days, even in Europe, the world was thought to be flat. And when some intelligent people claimed the opposite, they were exposed to various difficulties, such as being burnt alive. Today, even in Buddhist countries everybody knows, that the world is round. However in Tibet, we still stubbornly state that the world is flat.

Foreword of a Kamasutra translation, Calcutta 1939
As for me - I have little shame I love women. Every man has a woman. Every woman has a man. Both in their mind desire sexual union. What chance is the for clean behaviour? If natural passions are openly banned, unnatural passions will grow in secrecy. No law of religion - no law of morality can suppress the natural passion of mankind.