The best Quotes by Desmond Tutu

The best Quotes by Desmond Tutu

Desmond Mpilo Tutu (7 October 1931 – 26 December 2021) was a South African Anglican bishop and theologian, known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Bullying Neutrality

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

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Rose always used to tell me that keeping quiet when someone's hurt you isn't kind, it's stupid. I might be useless, and I might be slow... but I'm not stupid!

Nemunas in Epic Seven

Bullying happens because weak people need to prop up their ego by beating up or humiliating others.

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Charlie: "You didn't have to do that. I'm used to people saying stuff about me."
Nick: "No. But you shouldn't have to be. People shouldn't be saying stuff about you in the first place. You shouldn't have to put up with anything like that."

Nick Nelson in Heartstopper - Season 1 Episode 7

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Goldie Wilson: "Stand tall, boy! Have some respect for yourself. Don't you know if you let people walk over you now, they'll walk over you for the rest of your life."

Back to the Future

I don't believe in revenge. When people are bullies, it's because of a deeper-rooted issue. Either their family life is tough or they're being bullied by someone bigger than they are.

Khloé Kardashian in The Kardashians

I find it's usually the bullies who are the most insecure.

I allowed myself to be bullied because I was scared and didn't know how to defend myself. I was bullied until I prevented a new student from being bullied. By standing up for him, I learned to stand up for myself.

Jackie Chan

I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.

Natalie Portman

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School Bullying

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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Solitude & Loneliness Bullying

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself!

Harvey Fierstein

Self-Confidence Bullying

Bullying is a vital part of every ecosystem. It teaches kids resilience. The world is a rough place. Bullying is like getting inoculated. It's a vaccine.

Frank Gallagher in Shameless - Season 4

All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were "cool" in their younger years.

Taylor Swift

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Popularity Bullying

Bystanders who do nothing give bullies permission inadvertently to go on being bullies. Most are afraid they’ll lose friends or be bullied themselves if they help victims or report bullies, and some feel guilty for years afterward.

Megan Kelley Hall in Dear Bully: Seventy Authors Tell Their Stories

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There can be no balance with a hand on the scale.

Swain, the Noxian Grand General in League of Legends

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Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.

Lajos Kossuth

1

You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing.

Charlie Sheen

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We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Elie Wiesel

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Bullying Neutrality

Joey: "My agent thinks I should have a name that's more neutral."
Chandler: "Joey... Switzerland?"

Chandler Bing in Friends - Season 1 Episode 21

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Neutrality Switzerland

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

Dante Alighieri

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Neutrality Hölle

I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.

Internet YouTube Neutrality

Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.

Woodrow Wilson

I'm always the neutral guy, man. I'm able to bring people together.

Kenny Smith

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.

William Paul Young in The Shack

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Friendship Family

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.

Richard Bach

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Family. Where life begins and love never ends...

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Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind, or forgotten.

Lilo Pelekai in Lilo and Stitch

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I don't have friends, I have family.

Dominic Toretto in Fast and Furious

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Friendship Family

No one hurts my family and lives. No one.

Elijah Mikaelson in The Originals

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There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Children & Childhood Family Parents

You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it's all about family.

Rod Stewart

4

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

Margaret Mead

4

The most important thing in the world is family and love.

John Wooden

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Tony Stark: "You got a family?"
Yinsen: "Yes, and I will see them when I leave here. And you, Stark?"
Tony Stark: "No."
Yinsen: "So you're a man who has everything... and nothing."

Yinsen in Iron Man

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I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

Joyce Meyer

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We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Family Parents Mother Birth

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

James Comey

I will do everything if confirmed as FBI director to make sure the American public knows the full weight of what happened.

Kash Patel - Januar 2025

The Epstein Files

Technology has forever changed the world we live in. We're online, in one way or another, all day long. Our phones and computers have become reflections of our personalities, our interests, and our identities. They hold much that is important to us.

James Comey

There are well over 250 victims, so we have to make sure that their identity is protected. Other than that, I think tomorrow you're gonna see some Epstein information being released by my office. What you're gonna see is a lot of flight-logs, a lot of names, a lot of information.

Pam Bondi - February 2025

The Epstein Files

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