When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.
Desmond TutuPeople are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.
Desmond TutuThere's no way in which you can ever win a war against terror. As long as there are conditions in many parts of the world that make people desperate: poverty, disease, ignorance, etc. I hope that we will discover soon, that we can survive, only together. We can prosper only together. And I think people are beginning to realize this, that you can't have pockets of prosperity in one part of the world and huge deserts of poverty and deprivation and think you can have a stable, secure world.
Desmond TutuPeople sometimes strive after and think they will find deep satisfaction for their psyches in wealth, sex or drugs, but then find that ultimately these things do not satisfy human longings.
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