Quote

Life is funny and we are really funny, especially when we get to be hoity toity we can be so ridiculous. Life is fun.

Desmond Tutu

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
Activist
Anglican Priest
Non-Fiction Writer
Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
Ridiculous
Especially
Fun
Funny
Really
Life

More quotes by Desmond Tutu

Image
We are living in an historic moment. We are each called to take part in a great transformation. Our survival as a species is threatened by global warming, economic meltdown, and an ever-increasing gap between rich and poor. Yet these threats offer an opportunity to awaken as an interconnected and beloved community.
Desmond Tutu
Image
The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need to celebrate your and my different gifts, even if mine are perhaps less spectacular than yours.
Desmond Tutu
Image
At home in South Africa I have sometimes said in big meetings where you have black and white together: 'Raise your hands!' Then I have said: 'Move your hands,' and I've said 'Look at your hands - different colors representing different people. You are the Rainbow People of God.'
Desmond Tutu
Image
I can't control what happens to me, but I can control how I respond to it.
Desmond Tutu
Image
The moment our dignity is undermined, we get up in arms and want to see our dignity restored - especially if we are humiliated.
Desmond Tutu
Image
Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.
Desmond Tutu
Image
All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of.
Desmond Tutu
Image
How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?
Desmond Tutu
Image
A person who is assured of the love of God will see his fellow men in a different light and treat them and himself differently, and of course this also applies to business leaders.
Desmond Tutu
Image
I have often said to my Jewish friends: Please just remember where you come from. Remember Yahweh, who said to the Israelites, 'Treat the alien well with justice.' Almost all of the passion that we have has come from the inspiration that we have got from the Jewish Scriptures.
Desmond Tutu
Image
If I diminish you, I diminish myself
Desmond Tutu
Image
Of course, you've got to reckon with the burden of the past. You can't just easily dismiss it. It is a legacy and often you have to carry an albatross. And it won't happen until people are able to have a certain level of trust and try to speak to each other, not as caricatures but as people.
Desmond Tutu
Image
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
Desmond Tutu
Image
Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences.
Desmond Tutu
Image
Without forgiveness, there's no future.
Desmond Tutu
Image
You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere.
Desmond Tutu
Image
I believe history teaches us a categorical lesson: that once a people are determined to become free, then nothing in the world can stop them reaching their goal.
Desmond Tutu
Image
You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.
Desmond Tutu
Image
As a Christian, I believe in the sanctity of life and that death is a part of life.
Desmond Tutu
Image
Mother Teresa, you could say many things about her, but certainly you would not say she was macho. Anything but.
Desmond Tutu