Ubuntu Quotes

Justice of right is always to take precedence over might. ~ Barbara Jordan

When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future. ~ Therese Of Lisieux

Ubuntu is doing amazing things, and I think it's going to change the face of the desktop. ~ Matt Mullenweg

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting. ~ A.J.P. Taylor

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral. ~ Ida Tarbell

I must fight
Til I have conquered
In myself
what causes war ~ Marianne Moore

You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means to be truly human, to know that you are bound up with others in the bundle of life. ~ Desmond Tutu

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. ~ Alice Walker

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

Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence. ~ Leo Tolstoy

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice ~ Thomas Jefferson

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. ~ John Frederick Maurice

The principle of treating others the same way one would like to be treated is echoed in at least twelve religions of the world. "Others" transcend gender, race, class, sexual orientation or caste. Whoever and whatever the "other" is, she has to be treated with dignity, kindness, love, and respect. In African communitarian spirituality, this is well expressed in the Ubuntu religious and ethical ideal of "I am because you are, and since we are, therefore I am" - a mandate based on the reality of our being interconnected and interdependent as creation. Therefore pain caused to one is pain shared by all. FULATA MOYO, PROGRAM EXECUTIVE, WOMEN IN CHURCH AND SOCIETY, WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES ~ Jimmy Carter

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms. ~ Anonymous

I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize. ~ Steven Wright

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up. ~ Adrienne Rich

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. ~ Ellen Key

Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace.It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him. ~ Baudouin Of Belgium

There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace I am thinking of is not at the mercy of history's rule, nor is it a passive surrender to the status quo. The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one
an activity that occurs most naturally, most often in the reading/writing world we live in. Accessible as it is, this particular kind of peace warrants vigilance. ~ Toni Morrison

His subject that day was an African approach to management called ubuntu, which was all about creating a sense of community and shared responsibility in the workplace. Reuben and other prominent South African business thinkers were excited about ubuntu, a distinctly African take on a subject that seemed so very un-African: management. Francine even had the word ubuntu carved into a piece of teak hanging behind her desk. "The West really has so much to learn from Africa," she frequently reminded me. ~ Jillian Reilly

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. ~ Wes Moore

I've tried it a couple of times over the years, mainly because the thing Ubuntu did so well was make Debian usable. I always felt that Debian was a pointless exercise because to me, the point of a distribution is to make everything easy. Easy to install, to be pretty and to be friendly and Ubuntu did that to Debian. ~ Linus Torvalds

A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor. ~ Agnes Repplier

Compromise does not mean cowardice. ~ John F. Kennedy

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. ~ Karl Kraus

A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed. ~ Desmond Tutu

[T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of wealth and income. ~ Ludwig Von Mises

Accurst be he that first invented war. ~ Christopher Marlowe

Tradition is the living faith of dead people to which we must add our chapter while we have the gift of life. Traditionalism is the dead faith of living people who fear that if anything changes, the whole enterprise will crumble. ~ Jaroslav Pelikan

One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

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. ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

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

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense. ~ Jeannette Rankin

The God of peace is never glorified by human violence. ~ Thomas Merton

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. ~ Mark Shuttleworth

Ubuntu is not a biblical concept but an ancient African one. Nevertheless it falls back on one simple thing: that humans have been created for togetherness, and what drives us apart is greed, lust for power, and a sense of exclusion, but those are aberrations. ~ Allan Boesak

Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light. ~ Pindar

I was born in debian,
school in ubuntu,
worked with some distro,
and finally on slackware I go home. ~ Creatorbe

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

It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence ... and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect. ~ Manitonquat

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. ~ Audre Lorde

The earth is too small a star and we too brief a visitor upon it for anything to matter more than the struggle for peace. ~ Colman McCarthy

There is a word in South Africa - ubuntu - that describes his greatest gift: his recognition that we are all bound together in ways that can be invisible to the eye; that there is a oneness to humanity; that we achieve ourselves by sharing ourselves with others, and caring for those around us, ~ Barack Obama

Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony. ~ Queen Rania Of Jordan

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. ~ Friedrich Schiller

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision. ~ Jeannette Rankin

A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is - a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves. ~ E. Stanley Jones

Ubuntu [...] speaks of the very essence of being human. [We] say [...] "Hey, so-and-so has ubuntu." Then 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 caught up, is inextricably bound up, in yours." We belong in a bundle of life. We say, "A person is a person through other persons."

[...] A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed, or treated as if they were less than who they are. ~ Desmond Tutu

Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount. ~ Wes Moore

Ubuntu is about a community coming together to help one another. ~ Paul Pierce

A good end cannot sanctify evil means, nor must we ever do evil that good may come of it. ~ Nancy Kress

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. ~ Desmond Tutu

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

There are two main methodologies of open source development. There's the Apache model, which is design by committee - great for things like web servers. Then you have the benevolent dictator model. That's what Ubuntu is doing, with Mark Shuttleworth. ~ Matt Mullenweg

Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet. ~ Alice Walker

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology. ~ Ronald Reagan

The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not meet with protest and opposition. It is like the cold, darkness and weight, which people had to put up with until recently when warmth, illumination and leverage were discovered ... ~ Leo Tolstoy