Desmond Tutu Quotes - Page 7

Quotes about:

• No peace is impossible when people are determined to achieve it

  Desmond Tutu

  People, Determined, Impossible

  9 Copy quote

• Arrogance really comes from insecurity, and in the end our feeling that we are bigger than others is really the flip side of our feeling that we are smaller than others.

  Desmond Tutu

  Feelings, Insecurity, Arrogance

  15 Copy quote

• The matter of the abuse and cruelty we inflict on other animals has to fight for our attention in what sometimes seems an already overfull moral agenda. It is vital, however, that these instances of injustice not be overlooked.

  Desmond Tutu

  Fighting, Animal, Abuse

  "Desmond Tutu On Animal Welfare: We Must Fight Injustice To Animals". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2013.

  5 Copy quote

• The final and full revelation of God is not a book, it is a person. Jesus Christ.

  Desmond Tutu

  Jesus, Book, Finals

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

  3 Copy quote

• Most of the leading figures of the Old Testament were polygamists. Abraham had several wives and concubines. If they wanted, they could say this was approved in the Bible.

  Desmond Tutu

  Wife, Old Testament, Figures

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

  7 Copy quote

• You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

  Desmond Tutu

  Crowds, Standing Out, Shoulders

  8 Copy quote

• I have struggled against tyranny. I didn't do that in order to substitute another.

  Desmond Tutu

  Order, Substitutes, Tyranny

  1998 In The Irish Times,'This Week They Said', 31 Oct.

  5 Copy quote

• We have an incredible capacity for the worst possible evil, all of us, it was that we also have this incredible capacity for good. And that is why we are all of us appalled when something bad happens. Because if the bad was the norm, we would just shrug our shoulders and say "well tough luck, this is how the cookie crumbles" kind of thing but none of us does that.

  Desmond Tutu

  Evil, Luck, Doe

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

  5 Copy quote

• People are scared in this country [the US], to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful - very powerful.

  Desmond Tutu

  Country, Powerful, People

  "Apartheid in the Holy Land" by Desmond Tutu, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2002.

  8 Copy quote

• Never let anyone make you feel inferior for being who you are. When you live the life you were meant to live, in freedom and dignity

  Desmond Tutu

  Live Life, Dignity, Feels

  4 Copy quote

• Even the worst dictator, there is not a single one of them who would say "Oh yes, I violate human rights." They all claim "oh no, we respect human rights" even when they are doing the most egregious things.

  Desmond Tutu

  Rights, Dictator, Claims

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

  3 Copy quote

• I am not an afterthought I am not an accident.

  Desmond Tutu

  Accidents, Afterthought

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

  5 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.

  7 Copy quote

• I hope that you will be amongst those young people who say we worked to change the world. We worked to make the world a more gentle, a more compassionate, a more caring world.

  Desmond Tutu

  Caring, People, World

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

  3 Copy quote

• A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.

  Desmond Tutu

  Isolation, Persons, Humans

  63 Copy quote

• Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are.

  Desmond Tutu

  Ubuntu, Peaceful, World

  8 Copy quote

• There are very good Christians who are compassionate and caring. And there are very bad Christians. You can say that about Islam, about Hinduism, about any faith. That is why I was saying that it was not the faith per se but the adherent. People will use their religion to justify virtually anything.

  Desmond Tutu

  Christian, Caring, People

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

  2 Copy quote

• As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier fashion, it would return to haunt you.

  Desmond Tutu

  Fashion, Past, Return

  4 Copy quote

• Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, other-worldly activities. They have to do with the real world. They are realpolitik, because in a very real sense, without forgiveness, there is no future.

  Desmond Tutu

  Forgiveness, Spiritual, Real

  "The Truth About Forgiveness" by Wendy Strgar, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2010.

  6 Copy quote

• We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons. We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity.

  Desmond Tutu

  Long, Together, Humans

  "Interview: Desmond Tutu on gay rights, the Middle East and Pope Francis". Interview with Sarah Pulliam Bailey, www.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

  5 Copy quote

• Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.

  Desmond Tutu

  Xenophobia, Racism, Slavery

  Desmond Tutu, John Allen (2011). “God Is Not A Christian”, p.51, Random House

  39 Copy quote

• Without forgiveness, there's no future.

  Desmond Tutu

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Forgiveness

  "Archbishop Desmond Tutu". Interview with Frank Lipman, www.bewell.com. April 14, 2009.

  48 Copy quote

• I have heard and seen many examples of the cruelty that we are able to visit on one another during my time. . . I have also seen incredible forgiveness and compassion. Yes, each of us has the capacity for great evil. But for every act of evil there are a dozen acts of goodness in our world that go unnoticed. It is only because we believe that people should be good that we despair when they are not. Indeed, if people condoned the evil, we would be justified in losing hope. But most of the world does not. We know that we are meant for better.

  Desmond Tutu

  Believe, Compassion, Our World

  1 Copy quote

• What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?

  Desmond Tutu

  Empowerment, Black, Majority

  "Tutu says Mbeki enriching few at expense of poor" by Andrew Meldrum, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2004.

  4 Copy quote

• Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy.

  Desmond Tutu

  People, Would Be, Shy

  "The secrets of a peacemaker" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

Page 7 of 21

First

← Prev

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin