Desmond Tutu Quotes About Revenge
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Revenge has a way of corroding you, the revenger. You know it doesn't heal you.
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You ask when is it that you can say yes we have had enough. It is enough revenge and I think now we have restored the equilibrium. It never happens!
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Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.
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To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.
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To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good.
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Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.
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