Desmond Tutu Quotes

People can forgive each other.

Only the brave know how to forgive...

I don’t hate anyone including my enemies.

Rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when an increasingly balkanized world so badly needs it.

Forgiveness should go hand-in-hand with love.

I don't bear any bitterness towards anyone.

Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.

One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.

I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there was a gun in my hand and he stands in front of me, I would not shoot him.

Lord, Bless our enemies; have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

My way of thinking is to create a situation where we rally everyone together and create peace and pardon people, to not forget about the past - because we need to learn from it - but to mainly think about the future.

Where there is injury let me sow pardon.

I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

Forgiving is not an easy thing to do.

I have no animosity against any living soul.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.

Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them.

History is not hatred.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

We shall prepare the coffee of reconciliation through the filter of justice. Through reconciliation, streams of tears will come to our eyes.

Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength. History shows that it cannot survive war and devastation.

Forgiveness is a basis for moral and ethical behavior.