Desmond Tutu: Good

Desmond Tutu is South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner. Explore interesting quotes on good.
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“Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.”

Desmond Tutu
Love

“My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right.”

Desmond Tutu
Lie , Sense

“In the end what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much we love Him but how much He loves us. And God loves us whoever we are, whatever we’ve done or failed to do, whatever we believe or can’t.”

Desmond Tutu
Love , God

“Do a little bit of good wherever you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world”

Desmond Tutu

Variant: Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

World

“For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.”

Desmond Tutu

As quoted in The New York Times (3 January 1985)

People

“Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.”

Desmond Tutu

Hope and Suffering: Sermons and Speeches (1984)

People , Freedom

“People are scared in this country, to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful — very powerful. Well, so what? For goodness sake, this is God's world! We live in a moral universe. The apartheid government was very powerful, but today it no longer exists. Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Pinochet, Milosevic, and Idi Amin were all powerful, but in the end they bit the dust.”

Desmond Tutu

Speech in Boston (2002)

God , People , World , Universe