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As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression, and injustice, the world has an even greateer instinct for goodness, rebirth, mercy,

As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression, and injustice, the world has an even greateer instinct for goodness, rebirth, mercy, beauty, truth, freedom and love.

Desmond Tutu
Dance, War, Evil

We have an incredible capacity for the worst possible evil, all of us, it was that we also have this incredible capacity for good. And that is why we are all of us appalled when something bad happens. Because if the bad was the norm, we would just shrug our shoulders and say "well tough luck, this is how the cookie crumbles" kind of thing but none of us does that.

Desmond Tutu
Evil, Luck, Doe
Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.

Desmond Tutu
Evil, Justice, Diversity
1985 Speech, Mar.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

Desmond Tutu
Evil, Atrocities, Capacity

The only separation the Bible knows is between believers on the one hand and unbelievers on the other. Any other kind of separation, division, disunity is of the devil. It is evil and from sin.

Desmond Tutu
Hands, Evil, Division
Desmond Tutu (1982). “The Divine Intention: Presentation”

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.

Desmond Tutu
Thinking, People, Evil
Interview with Nick Stadlen, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2007.

Making the truth public is a form of justice. This is a moral universe and you've got to take account of the fact that truth and lies and goodness and evil are things that matter.

Desmond Tutu
Lying, Evil, Justice

I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.

Desmond Tutu
Dust, Evil, Apartheid
Interview with Nick Stadlen, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2007.

We are fundamentally good, and evil is an aberration.

Desmond Tutu
Evil, Aberration, Good And Evil
Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

I would hope that wherever I was I would be me. I have been influenced by some wonderful people who showed me that there is an integral relationship between faith and life at home. Evil is evil, repression is repression anywhere. And if it is not consistent with what one believes is God's will, then I would hope that one would be able to witness it, and there are wonderful people who do so in very great risks to themselves.

Desmond Tutu
Believe, Home, Evil

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