Home / Quotes / Quote by Desmond Tutu

Quote by Desmond Tutu

“We have a planet that is at risk, where resources don't have a permanent life. We are going to have to make the decision: are we going to survive or are we waiting for our extinction? One day we will wake up and find people are fighting not for oil but water.”

Quote by Desmond Tutu

Author

Desmond Tutu, born on October 7, 1931, was a prominent anti-apartheid activist, theologian, and author from South Africa. He played a significant role in the abolition of apartheid in South Africa and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his efforts. more

You May Also Like

“If you are going to be a leader, you must have a record where people saw you are standing up against injustice at a risk. Then that builds up your stock of credibility so that, when you speak on another occasion about a different thing, people will pay attention.”

People Ifs Different Speak Pay Attention Leader Records Saws Risk Standing Injustice Occasions Pay Attention Different Things Credibility

Author:Desmond Tutu

“There's no more delicious irony on the face of the Earth than environmental protesters being led away in plastic handcuffs that have a biodegradability horizon line of, like, 40,000 years.”

Years Earth Faces Lines Environmental Irony Horizon Plastic Delicious Handcuffs

Author:Dennis Miller

“I think a lot of times God takes away your feelings, so you have to depend on faith. And faith is kind of like a tide. It rolls in and rolls out.”

Thinking Kind Feelings Depends Tides

Author:Rick Warren

“The way God teaches us to live by faith is He takes away our feelings.”

Way Feelings Teach Live By

Author:Rick Warren

“It's easy to explain away evil. We have a free choice, and our greatest blessing is also our greatest curse, because I don't always make good choices. Other people make bad choices. I make bad choices. And sometimes we hurt other people. Sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally.”

People Sometimes Choices Evil Easy Hurt Blessing Curse Free Choice Bad Choices Greatest Blessings Good Choices

Author:Rick Warren

“Nothing works perfectly. The weather doesn't work perfectly. Because of sin in the world, nothing works perfectly. But in spite of that we can find comfort. We can find strength.”

World Sin Comfort Weather Spite Finding Strength Sin In The World

Author:Rick Warren

“The people [in the USA] are not very well informed. They certainly don`t know history. They certainly are not interested in foreign affairs very much, unless it comes right to their doorstep. They all learn history through wars. They learn geography through wars.”

People Knows Wells War Affair Usa Not Interested Geography Doorstep Foreign Affairs

Author:Bill Maher

“God doesn't owe us an explanation for everything and actually what I've found is that explanations don't comfort. What comforts is the presence of God, not the explanation of God.”

Found Comfort Explanation Presence Of God

Author:Rick Warren

“The key is really just saying my brain isn't big enough to figure out why everything happens. It would be like an ant trying to understand the internet.”

Trying Enough Bigs Happens Would Be Brain Figures Keys Internet Things Happen Ants Just Saying

Author:Rick Warren

“We should have charity for what the dead say. We may disapprove of what they say, but we should not insult them and revile them knowing they cannot not defend themselves.”

Should May Knowing Should Have Charity Insult

Author:John Lithgow