Quotes by Ubuntu The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies Basil O'Connor ubuntuwarpeace We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers. Bayard Rustin ubuntucommunitypeace God does not require us to achieve any of the good tasks that humanity must pursue. What God requires of us is that we not stop trying. Bayard Rustin ubuntuhumanitypeace There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up. Bernice Johnson Reagon ubuntupeacepeople If we just worry about the big picture, we are powerless. So my secret is to start right away doing whatever little work I can do. I try to give joy to one person in the morning, and remove the suffering of one person in the afternoon. If you and your friends do not despise the small work, a million people will remove a lot of suffering. That is the secret. Start right now. Chan Khong ubuntumorningpeace Accurst be he that first invented war. Christopher Marlowe ubuntuwarpeace Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago. Colman McCarthy ubuntuwarpeace Democracies die behind closed doors. Damon Keith ubuntudoorspeace Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war. David Dellinger ubuntuwarpeace 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. Denise Levertov ubuntuwarpeace Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language. It speaks of the very essence of being human.... you are generous, you are hospitable, you are friendly and caring and compassionate. You share what you have. It is to say, 'My humanity is inextricably bound up in yours.' We belong in a bundle of life. Desmond Tutu ubuntucaringessence One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu - the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can't exist as a human being in isolation. It speaks about our interconnectedness. You can't be human all by yourself, and when you have this quality - Ubuntu - you are known for your generosity. We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole World. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity. Desmond Tutu ubuntucountrythinking Bringing people together is what i call 'ubuntu,' which means 'I am because we are.' Far too often people think of themselves as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole world. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity. Desmond Tutu ubuntumeanthinking A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed. Desmond Tutu ubuntuknowingself Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours.' Desmond Tutu onenessubuntuhumanity You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means to be truly human, to know that you are bound up with others in the bundle of life. Desmond Tutu empathyubuntumean Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are. Desmond Tutu peacefulubuntuworld Ubuntu really says if you want to be nice to yourself, start in a way by being nice to the other. Desmond Tutu ubuntunicewant I think that most of us would say that ubuntu basically speaks about what it means to be human. Desmond Tutu ubuntumeanthinking 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. Donald Knuth ubuntujewelsmemories«1234567»
