Quotes from Desmond Tutu
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
- Desmond Tutu
Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.
- Desmond Tutu
In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
- Desmond Tutu
People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.
- Desmond Tutu
Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.
- Desmond Tutu
Do your little bit of good where you are.
- Desmond Tutu
Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.
- Desmond Tutu
True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or any other identity attribute.
- Desmond Tutu
The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
- Desmond Tutu
There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out.
- Desmond Tutu
Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.
- Desmond Tutu
I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.
- Desmond Tutu