Ubuntu Quotes
There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.
There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.
What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.
Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.
Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.
Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word "human."
The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies
A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
Only when there are many people who are pools of peace, silence, understanding, will war disappear.
The obligation to earn one's bread presumes the right to do so. A society that denies this right cannot be justified, nor can it attain social peace.
Our future on this planet, exposed as it is to nuclear annihilation, depends one one single factor: humanity must make a moral about-face.
Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.
The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative.
When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther said, "I would plant a tree."
Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.
We tend to defend vigorously things that in our deepest hearts we are not quite certain about. If we are certain of something we know, it doesn't need defending.
It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.
All social life is essentially practical. All mysterious which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of the practice.
I think that most of us would say that ubuntu basically speaks about what it means to be human.
