Desmond Tutu Quotes About Revenge

Quotes about: Revenge

• To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.

  Desmond Tutu

  Revenge, Punishment, Justice

• Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

  Desmond Tutu

  Revenge, Military, Men

• Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.

  Desmond Tutu

  Revenge, Politics

• You ask when is it that you can say yes we have had enough. It is enough revenge and I think now we have restored the equilibrium. It never happens!

  Desmond Tutu

  Revenge, Thinking, Had Enough

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

• Revenge has a way of corroding you, the revenger. You know it doesn't heal you.

  Desmond Tutu

  Revenge, Way, Heal

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

• To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good.

  Desmond Tutu

  Revenge, Self, Forgiving

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