Desmond Tutu Quotes

There will be no future without forgiveness. Any process of peace is bound to collapse if this is missing. There is no way peace and stability can come through the gun of vengeance.

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.

We are destined to live together, on the same soil in the same land. We, the soldiers who have returned from battle stained with blood, we who have seen our relatives and friends killed before our eyes, we who have attended their funerals and cannot look into the eyes of their parents, we who have come from a land where parents bury their children, we who have fought against you, the Palestinians We say to you today in a loud and clear voice: Enough of blood and tears. Enough. We have no desire for revenge. We harbor no hatred towards you. We, like you, are people who want to build a home, to plant a tree, to love, live side by side with you in dignity, in empathy, as human beings, as free men. We are today giving peace a chance and again saying to you in a clear voice: Enough.

While it takes at least two to reconcile, it only takes one to forgive.

The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.

A word of truth can mobilise two peoples looking for the road to reconciliation.

Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.

In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.

Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.

I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.

We'd like to build a highway for healing and unity.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

I believe firmly in reconciliation among Vietnamese to avoid unnecessary shedding of the blood of Vietnamese.

They put aside the talk of peace and instead acted for peace.

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

There is some tension but at the end of the day you have to reconcile.

Of what good would another lecture on peace be? Peace is not something to lecture about, but something to put into practice.

Our biggest catastrophe was that Dresden was destroyed in the war. But the message of the city is that wounds of war can heal, and people can live in peace.

Justice is one of the core elements towards reconciliation and sustainable peace.

Although wrongs have been done me I live in hope. ... Now we are together again to make peace.

Reconciliation is more beautiful than victory.

The path of violence has not yielded anything. Shed guns and adopt the path of peace, unity, goodwill and brotherhood.

Forgiveness, dialogue, reconciliation - these are the words of peace, in beloved Syria, in the Middle East, in all the world.

No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.