Ubuntu Quotes

Ubuntu Quote of the day

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.

If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.

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

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

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.

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

May we look upon our treasure, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try to discover whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these our possessions.

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

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

Democracies die behind closed doors.

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

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.

Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war.

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.

In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

If peace . . . only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars.

Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours.'

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.

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

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

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

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

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

All works of love are works of peace.

Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.

They make a desert and call it peace.

It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.

There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.

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

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

How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?

You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?

The God of peace is never glorified by human violence.

You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.

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

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

The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.

Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are.

Ubuntu is about a community coming together to help one another.

Compromise does not mean cowardice.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Peace as a positive condition of society, not merely as an interim between wars, is something so unknown that it casts no images on the mind's screen.

Excessive economic, social and cultural inequalities among peoples arouse tensions and conflicts, and are a danger to peace.

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