Desmond Tutu Quotes

The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.

Al-Qa'ida is the antithesis of the peace, tolerance and humanity that is at the heart of Islam.

I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in place of democracy, for the starvation that stalks after it. I renounce war, and never again, directly or indirectly, will I sanction or support another.

… without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.... Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that accompanies and consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit all around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.

We need to make ourselves deaf to the clamor of the whole world, because war feeds on despotism and is not fought for love of God

The truth is that if Israel were to put down its arms there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs were to put down their arms there would be no more war.

The Conqueror is always a lover of peace: he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.

Israelis must be encouraged to defeat the Palestinians.

All nations that throw their military weight around, occupying neighboring lands and treating the residents with callous and humiliating disregard, are already sliding towards the dark possibilities in human nature.

No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights.

We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.

They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.

We came to Iraq to liberate them and to make our world a safer place.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

We have been in the territories since 1967. In 2002, we had sometimes three or four suicide attacks every day. We came to the conclusion that it can't continue like that.

Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.

Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.

I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

Israel remains a foreign body in this large area, and it always proved that it is unable to coexist with this environment, because the, the scope of the massacres that it has committed does not permit it to coexist.

In violence, we forget who we are.

In general, it should be in our interest to get organizations out of military activity and into politics.

I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.

Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.

Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.