Ubuntu Quotes - Page 3

• The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Peace, Justice, Avenging

  馬可•奧里略 (Marcus Aurelius) (2014). “沉思錄:讀了一百年還要再讀一百年的不朽鉅著”, p.146, 德威國際文化

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• There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Peace, Establishment, Making Peace

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• Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Peace, Power, Hands

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• A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.

  Agnes Repplier

  Peace, World, Force

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• Freedom is like taking a bath: You got to keep doing it every day.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Peace, Freedom, Baths

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• Democracies die behind closed doors.

  Damon Keith

  Peace, Doors, Democracy

  "Judge Damon J. Keith – Part 2". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 30, 2015.

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• We tend to defend vigorously things that in our deepest hearts we are not quite certain about. If we are certain of something we know, it doesn't need defending.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Peace, Heart, Needs

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• What is man?
  Hope turned to dust.
  No.
  What is man?
  Dust turned to hope.

  Elie Wiesel

  Peace, Men, Dust

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• Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)

  Booker T. Washington

  Peace, Hate, Men

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• Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.

  Alice Walker

  Peace, Alive, Pay

  Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.100, The New Press

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• There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

  A. J. Muste

  Peace, War, Insightful

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 16 Nov. 1967

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• In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human success, but rather on how much we have loved.

  John of the Cross

  Peace, Twilight, Judging

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• If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed � but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Hate, Greed

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• War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

  Alice Walker

  Peace, War, Giving

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.278, Hachette UK

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• We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.

  Bayard Rustin

  Peace, Community, Groups

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• God does not require us to achieve any of the good tasks that humanity must pursue. What God requires of us is that we not stop trying.

  Bayard Rustin

  Peace, Humanity, Trying

  Bayard Rustin (2003). “Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin”, p.409, Simon and Schuster

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• I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.

  Florence Nightingale

  Peace, Military, Fighting

  Florence Nightingale, Sue M. Goldie (1997). “Florence Nightingale: Letters from the Crimea”, p.296, Manchester University Press

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• If you love the justice of Jesus Christ more than you fear human judgment then you will seek to do compassion. Compassion means that if I see my friend and my enemy in equal need, I shall help them both equally. Justice demands that we seek and find the stranger, the broken, the prisoner and comfort them and offer them our help. Here lies the holy compassion of God that causes the devils much distress.

  Mechthild of Magdeburg

  Jesus, Peace, Lying

  Sue Woodruff, Mechthild (of Magdeburg) (1982). “Meditations with Mechtild of Magdeburg”, Bear & Co

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• The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Religious, Peace, True Identity

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• It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence . . . and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect.

  Manitonquat

  Peace, Love Is, Circles

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• In India when we meet and part we often say, "Namaste," which means: I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides; I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides; I honor the place in you of love, of light, of truth, of peace. I honor the place within you where if you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us�.. "Namaste."

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  Ram Dass

  Peace, Mean, Light

  Ram Dass, Stephen Levine (2014). “Grist for the Mill: Awakening to Oneness”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Peace, War, Cutting

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• Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.

  Indira Gandhi

  Peace, War, Ignorance

  Indira Gandhi, Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti (1975). “The Spirit of India: volumes presented to Shrimati Indira Gandhi by the Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti”

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• I've tried it a couple of times over the years, mainly because the thing Ubuntu did so well was make Debian usable. I always felt that Debian was a pointless exercise because to me, the point of a distribution is to make everything easy. Easy to install, to be pretty and to be friendly and Ubuntu did that to Debian.

  Linus Torvalds

  Couple, Exercise, Years

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• Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Death, Peace, Opposites

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.308, e-artnow

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