Morarji Desai Quotes

The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one.

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• I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Peace
  • Garden
  • Movement

• My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Parents
  • Movement
  • Students

• Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Movement
  • Dictatorship

• The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Earth
  • Human
  • Ancient

• I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Up
  • Me
  • College

• In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Action
  • Movement
  • Beliefs

• Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • People
  • Peace
  • Quiet

• To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I love the early gothic Victorian literature, and both things spring from that movement.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Literature
  • Movement
  • Fantasy

• If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Country
  • Movement
  • Disappear

• I think it's foolish to interview someone who's just promoting a movie that they're in and ask if they consider themselves a feminist. That's not about feminism; that's about the journalist wanting to gauge how much this person is aware of the world or is aware of the feminist movement.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • World
  • Movie
  • Think

• That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Character
  • Movement
  • Rights

• I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Language
  • Read
  • Ancient

• I'm thinking about some developments say in the 80s when the anti-apartheid movement began to claim more support and strength within the US. Black trade unionists played a really important role in developing this US anti-apartheid movement.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Black

• A large movement covers a small movement

  

  Dai Vernon
  • Small
  • Movement

• The non-violent movement seeks justice and reconciliation, not victory - or not just victory.

  

  Alveda King
  • Justice
  • Victory
  • Movement

• Too late came I to love you, O Beauty both so ancient and so new! Too late came I to love you - and behold you were with me all the time . . .

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Time
  • Ancient
  • Love You

• The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one candidate whose agenda is squarely within that of the movement and make his or her electoral success a focal point.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Success
  • Party
  • Tea

• 1977 was also, of course, the year that Derek Jarman made his iconoclastic film Jubilee, which was so much part of the punk movement.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Years
  • Movement
  • Jubilee

• There's a reason cats were near deity in ancient Egypt. Dogs may be loyal, but cats are smart. This one must recognize our bond. You can take the cat ouf of Egypt, but you can't take Egypt out of the cat. Wow, I should have that embroidered on a pillow or something.

  

  Kiersten White
  • Reason
  • Dog
  • Smart

• President Obama made the right choice, over one million Americans are still working today. The American auto industry is not just surviving. It is thriving. Where Mitt Romney was willing to turn his back on Akron, Dayton and Toledo, Ohio, the president said, 'I've got your back.'

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • American
  • Today
  • Choice

• When I say war, I'm not talking about mental war; I'm talking about totally eliminating the obstacles to transformation of our children.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Children
  • War
  • Transformation

• When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Spiritual
  • Air
  • Exercise

• The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one.

  

  Morarji Desai
  • Movement
  • Ancient
  • Vegetarian Ancient Modern Movement