Desmond Tutu Quotes - Page 4

Quotes about:

• Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours.'

  Desmond Tutu

  Ubuntu, Oneness, Humanity

  45 Copy quote

• Love your enemy; it will ruin his reputation.

  Desmond Tutu

  Love You, Enemy, Ruins

  18 Copy quote

• If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.

  Desmond Tutu

  Hands, People, Injustice And Oppression

  30 Copy quote

• The pressure to succeed has a lot to do with why people overstep the line. It is a peculiar weakness of western culture where we have made a fetish of success.

  Desmond Tutu

  People, Weakness, Western Culture

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

  25 Copy quote

• Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

  Desmond Tutu

  Inspirational, Peace, Ordinary Extraordinary

  "Made for Goodness" by Desmond Tutu, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2012.

  11 Copy quote

• Sometimes you want to whisper in God's ear, "God, we know you are in charge, but why don't you make it slightly more obvious?"

  Desmond Tutu

  Ears, Want, Sometimes

  Desmond Tutu's Wallenberg Lecture at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, wallenberg.umich.edu. October 29, 2008.

  11 Copy quote

• To treat anyone as if they were less than human, less than a brother or a sister, no matter what they have done, is to contravene the very laws of our humanity.

  Desmond Tutu

  Brother, Law, Humanity

  Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Rev Mpho Tutu (2014). “The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

  22 Copy quote

• Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

  Desmond Tutu

  Children, Heart, Wonderful

  Desmond Tutu, John Webster (1982). “Bishop Desmond Tutu, the voice of one crying in the wilderness: a collection of his recent statements in the struggle for justice in South Africa”

  33 Copy quote

• He's a tremendous breath of fresh air. The things he [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge papal mansion and just dropped by in the dining room where ordinary people have meals. You think of his background, where he didn't use limousines in South America, that he used public transport. I'm so, so thrilled that he is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.

  Desmond Tutu

  Thinking, Our World, Air

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

  57 Copy quote

• Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone.

  Desmond Tutu

  Pain, Forgiving, Able

  21 Copy quote

• People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

  Desmond Tutu

  People, Favors, Speak

  36 Copy quote

• Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.

  Desmond Tutu

  Individual, Nations

  ""Truth and reconciliation"". BBC Focus on Africa magazine, January-March 2000.

  11 Copy quote

• Peace without justice is an impossibility.

  Desmond Tutu

  Peace, Justice, Impossibility

  Desmond Tutu, Naomi Tutu (1989). “The words of Desmond Tutu”, Newmarket Pr

  11 Copy quote

• People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.

  Desmond Tutu

  Business, Ties, People

  "We need an apartheid-style boycott to save the planet" by Desmond Tutu, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2014.

  38 Copy quote

• We need other human beings in order to be human.

  Desmond Tutu

  Order, Needs, Humans

  Michael Battle, Desmond Tutu (2009). “Ubuntu: I in You and You in Me”, p.54, Church Publishing, Inc.

  18 Copy quote

• We spend billions on banks when we know that a fraction of this money could save all the children in the world.

  Desmond Tutu

  Children, World, Fractions

  29 Copy quote

• You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means to be truly human, to know that you are bound up with others in the bundle of life.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mean, Ubuntu, Empathy

  39 Copy quote

• I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA] that's so committed to human rights doesn't find the death penalty an obscenity.

  Desmond Tutu

  Country, Usa, Rights

  29 Copy quote

• Dream of a world where poverty is history, dream of a world where we don't spend those obscene billions on arms, knowing full well that a tiny fraction of those budgets of death would ensure that children everywhere had clean water to drink, could afford the cheap inoculations against preventable diseases, would have good schools, adequate healthcare and decent homes.

  Desmond Tutu

  Dream, Children, School

  Source: stuart-coleman.com

  13 Copy quote

• We can encourage more of our universities and municipalities, foundations, corporations, individuals and cultural institutions... to move their money out of the problem (fossil fuels) and into the solutions (renewable energy)

  Desmond Tutu

  Moving, Future, Vision

  "Desmond Tutu: We fought apartheid. Now climate change is our global enemy" by Desmond Tutu, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2014.

  34 Copy quote

• The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mean, Reverence For Life, Death Penalty

  28 Copy quote

• It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

  Desmond Tutu

  Children, Giving, Moral

  "Facing the Future: Global Education at the Crossroads" by Desmond Tutu, Dennis Van Roekel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2010.

  37 Copy quote

• I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. No, I would say sorry, I mean I would much rather go to the other place.

  Desmond Tutu

  Sorry, Mean, Heaven

  "Desmond Tutu Would Prefer Hell Over A Homophobic Heaven". Desmond Tutu's statements during the United Nations’ launch of its gay-rights program in Cape Town, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 26, 2013.

  62 Copy quote

• I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and you see the settlements, you see what has happened to the land that was owned by the Palestinians. I have often said to my Jewish friends: "Please just remember where you come from. Remember Yahweh, who said to the Israelites, 'Treat the alien well with justice.'"

  Desmond Tutu

  Land, Justice, Trying

  "Archbishop Desmond Tutu Loves Pope Francis, Speaks On Gay Rights, War in Syria, Accusations Of Anti-Semitism". Interview With Sarah Pulliam Bailey, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

  30 Copy quote

• You have to understand that the Bible is really a library of books and it has different categories of material. There are certain parts which you have to say no to. The Bible accepted slavery. St Paul said women should not speak in church at all and there are people who have used that to say women should not be ordained. There are many things that you shouldn't accept.

  Desmond Tutu

  Book, People, Church

  24 Copy quote

Page 4 of 21

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin