Bishop Desmond Tutu Quotes & Sayings

My motto is: Always get even. When somebody screws you, screw them back in spades. — Donald J. Trump

But godliness with contentment is great gain. (1 Timothy 6:6) — Andy Stanley

America: A place where Realists have the freedom to be Idealists. — Dortha Jackson

I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to. — Elizabeth Berg

9 We praise our D Lord and Father with it, and we curse men who are made in God's likeness with it. — Anonymous

I am 52 years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth, I cannot vote. — Desmond Tutu

Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience ... many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to be ruins the power to write or paint. — Robert Adams

I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture. — Christine Baranski

While it is a truism to observe that if humans were angels, law would be unnecessary, we could equally turn the truism around, and note that if humans were devils, law would be pointless. In this sense, the law-making project always presupposes the improvability, if not the perfectibility, of humankind. Whether our view of human nature tends toward Hobbesian grimness or Rousseauian equanimity, we tend to think of law as critical to reducing brutality and violence. — Rosa Brooks