Ubuntu Quotes - Page 3

The Bible has a very meaningful expression: The Spirit makes all things new. We are those who grow old, and we want everything done to our aged standards. The Spirit is never old; the Spirit is always young.

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense; for war is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

They make a desert and call it peace.

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

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.

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both.

The solidarity which binds all men together as members of a common family makes it impossible for wealthy nations to look with indifference upon the hunger, misery and poverty of other nations whose citizens are unable to enjoy even elementary human rights. The nations of the world are becoming more and more dependent on one another and it will not be possible to preserve a lasting peace so long as glaring economic and social imbalances persist.

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

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

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

Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.

When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.

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

If development is the new name for peace, war and preparations for war are the major enemy of the healthy development of peoples. If we take the common good of all humanity as our norm, instead of individual greed, peace would be possible.

A bad peace is even worse than war.

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

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

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

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.

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

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.

The God of peace is never glorified by human violence.

The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.