Ubuntu Quotes - Page 5

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."

Instead of tug o' war, let's play hug o' war.

Only when there are many people who are pools of peace, silence, understanding, will war disappear.

We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth.... We are not going to be able to operate our spaceship earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common.

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.

Sensitivity to the immense needs of humanity brings with it a spontaneous rejection of the arms race, which is incompatible with the all out struggle against hunger, sickness, under-development and illiteracy.

Our future on this planet, exposed as it is to nuclear annihilation, depends one one single factor: humanity must make a moral about-face.

When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther said, "I would plant a tree."

The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.

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.

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.

Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.

The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative.

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.

I think that most of us would say that ubuntu basically speaks about what it means to be human.

I've tried it a couple of times over the years, mainly because the thing Ubuntu did so well was make Debian usable. I always felt that Debian was a pointless exercise because to me, the point of a distribution is to make everything easy. Easy to install, to be pretty and to be friendly and Ubuntu did that to Debian.

In History, stagnant waters, whether they be the stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on the ripples created by a few eccentric individuals. In homage to that life & vitality, the community has to brave certain perils and must countenance a measure of heresy. One must live dangerously if one wants to live at all.

We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.