Buddhism

[Carriere:] Despite what you see around you, and what you have lived through your self, you continue to think that human nature is good? [Dalai Lama:] I don't think so. It's not an opinion, it's a fact.
		p. 127
The Dalai Lama and Jean-Claude Carriere	Violence and Compassion Doubleday, 1996
English translation of Force du bouddhisme (Editions Robert Laffont-Fixot,1994). Conversations between Bstan-'dsin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, and Jean-Claude Carriere.