Quotes from Desmond Tutu
It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.
- Desmond Tutu
There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
- Desmond Tutu
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
If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else.
- Desmond Tutu
To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.
- Desmond Tutu
The universe can take quite a while to deliver.
- Desmond Tutu
For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.
- Desmond Tutu
I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.
- Desmond Tutu
You must show the world that you abhor fighting.
- Desmond Tutu
Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
- Desmond Tutu
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
I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.
- Desmond Tutu