Ubuntu Quotes - Page 4

I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.

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

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.

You measure a government by how few people need help.

Chef and Ubuntu are often inseparable in serious server deployments, making mutual integration a must for our users. We're excited to offer Chef as part of the Ubuntu distribution and to deliver easy bare metal provisioning with MAAS and Chef.

Compromise does not mean cowardice.

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.

What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.

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.

There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.

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

Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.

In the name of peace They waged the wars ain't they got no shame

There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

Nobody was born nonviolent. No one was born charitable. None of us comes to these things by nature but only by conversion. The first duty of the nonviolent community is helping its members work upon themselves and come to conversion.

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.

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.

Accurst be he that first invented war.

It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as utopian, don't hesitate to proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for going to war: to stamp out terrorism, install democracy, eliminate fascism, and most entertainingly, to "rid the world of evil-doers.

Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.

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.

War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing.

Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?

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.