Ubuntu Quotes · Page 2

If we cannot agree, let us at any rate agree to differ, but let us part as friends.

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

— Kin Hubbard

How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.

— Alice Walker

Only when there are many people who are pools of peace, silence, understanding, will war disappear.

— Rajneesh

Aye, fight! But not your neighbor. Fight rather all the things that cause you and your neighbor to fight.

— Mikhail Naimy

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

— Norman Cousins

We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.

— Ramsay MacDonald

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

— Maggie Kuhn

In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human success, but rather on how much…

— John of the Cross

If development is the new name for peace, war and preparations for war are the major enemy of the healthy development of…

— Pope John Paul II

Our future on this planet, exposed as it is to nuclear annihilation, depends one one single factor: humanity must make a moral…

— Pope John Paul II

[T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a…

— Ludwig von Mises

Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

— Leo Tolstoy

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

— Leo Tolstoy

Sensitivity to the immense needs of humanity brings with it a spontaneous rejection of the arms race, which is incompatible with the…

— Pope John Paul II

One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going…

— Frank Borman

We must have research for peace ... It would embrace the outstanding problems of morality. The time has come for man's intellect,…

— Linus Pauling

A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and…

— Desmond Tutu

If we just worry about the big picture, we are powerless. So my secret is to start right away doing whatever little…

— Chan Khong

There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace…

— Toni Morrison

It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as utopian, don't hesitate to proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for going…

— Arundhati Roy

Ubuntu is not a biblical concept but an ancient African one. Nevertheless it falls back on one simple thing: that humans have…

— Allan Boesak

The earth is too small a star and we too brief a visitor upon it for anything to matter more than the…

— Colman McCarthy

Ubuntu really says if you want to be nice to yourself, start in a way by being nice to the other.

— Desmond Tutu

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

— Agnes Repplier

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

— Alice Walker

We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.

— Agnes Repplier

Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.

— Pindar

Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?

— Leo Tolstoy

I think that most of us would say that ubuntu basically speaks about what it means to be human.

— Desmond Tutu

The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative.

— Hildegard Goss-Mayr

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

— Marshall McLuhan

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

— Elie Wiesel

Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Florence Nightingale

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

— Bayard Rustin

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

— Indira Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi