Quotes from Desmond Tutu
We would like to see you departing peacefully.
- Desmond Tutu
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
- Desmond Tutu
When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.
- Desmond Tutu
I will never tell anyone to pick up a gun. But I will pray for the man who picks up a gun, pray that he will be less cruel than he might otherwise have been.
- Desmond Tutu
It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.
- Desmond Tutu
Trust is one of the fundamentals of human existence. We need to be able to trust one another. A man who can no longer trust anyone will become sick.
- Desmond Tutu
A person who is assured of the love of God will see his fellow men in a different light and treat them and himself differently, and of course this also applies to business leaders.
- Desmond Tutu
We spend billions on banks when we know that a fraction of this money could save all the children in the world.
- Desmond Tutu
Mother Teresa, you could say many things about her, but certainly you would not say she was macho. Anything but.
- Desmond Tutu
The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future.
- Desmond Tutu
No peace is impossible when people are determined to achieve it.
- Desmond Tutu
We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.
- Desmond Tutu