Ubuntu Quotes

The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.

There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.

In the name of peace They waged the wars ain't they got no shame

I think that most of us would say that ubuntu basically speaks about what it means to be human.

If we cannot agree, let us at any rate agree to differ, but let us part as friends.

Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are.

Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?

God does not require us to achieve any of the good tasks that humanity must pursue. What God requires of us is that we not stop trying.

The God of peace is never glorified by human violence.

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.

When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther said, "I would plant a tree."

The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.

In India when we meet and part we often say, "Namaste," which means: I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides; I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides; I honor the place in you of love, of light, of truth, of peace. I honor the place within you where if you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us�.. "Namaste."

I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.

Compromise does not mean cowardice.

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense; for war is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

Chef and Ubuntu are often inseparable in serious server deployments, making mutual integration a must for our users. We're excited to offer Chef as part of the Ubuntu distribution and to deliver easy bare metal provisioning with MAAS and Chef.

The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?

It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.

War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.

Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language. It speaks of the very essence of being human.... you are generous, you are hospitable, you are friendly and caring and compassionate. You share what you have. It is to say, 'My humanity is inextricably bound up in yours.' We belong in a bundle of life.

All works of love are works of peace.

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.

Sensitivity to the immense needs of humanity brings with it a spontaneous rejection of the arms race, which is incompatible with the all out struggle against hunger, sickness, under-development and illiteracy.

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies

I went into the Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I now believe that if you prepare thoroughly for war you will get it.

We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

I hate it when they say, �He gave his life for his country.� They don�t die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them.

In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.

We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.

How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?

The common bond of humanity and decency that we share is stronger than any conflict, any adversity. Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount. Knowing when to fight and when to seek peace is wisdom. Ubuntu was right.

If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.

Peace is a condition of the heart. It's a state of mind, of tranquility, of calmness, and of centeredness. It's an understanding of the reciprocal nature of love, a presence, a journey. It's all of our aspirations. Peace is not a luxury or merely the absence of war, it's a kind of grace - which we're all entitled to as people who are alive. Peace is an active presence of the capacity for a higher evolution of human awareness.

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

If peace . . . only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars.