519 Quotes by Desmond Tutu

Trust is one of the fundamentals of human existence. We need to be able to trust one another. A man who can no longer trust anyone will become sick.

People in apartheid South Africa can tell you that God cursed black people when they cursed Him. And so the hermetic people were condemned to be drawers of water and of wood.

Human beings have a vested interest in being trustworthy.

If I diminish you, I diminish myself

Once lost, trust can only be regained if we are as good as our word.

I am a Nobel Peace laureate and my business should be to try to bring stability, not to be a red rag to bulls.

People are not born hating each other and wishing to cause harm. It is a learned condition.

My father always used to say, “Don’t raise your voice. Improve your argument.”

We need rituals for all traumas and loss, whether it is betrayal or infidelity or violence or murder. Ritual helps us heal, and ritual helped me heal and become ready to consider the person who murdered Angela, his story, his pain.