Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.

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• Non-violence is the article of faith.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Faith
  • Violence
  • Nonviolence

• Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Long
  • Fine
  • Nonviolence

• Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Violence
  • Will

• The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Enemy
  • Weapon

• Two years ago, China tested an anti-satellite weapon that actually caused quite a bit of controversy and one of the controversies is that by blowing up a satellite, you are creating more space debris which is a hazard to satellites and spacecraft in lower Earth orbit and if they had been a partner, you'd have to do an experiment, and if they had been a partner in the international space station, would they have really done that test? They would have really thought twice about creating that tension between the countries and potentially endangering a project that they were a part of.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Up
  • Done
  • Earth

• Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Wisdom
  • Common Sense

• People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • Believe
  • Hope

• Fear is the tool of a man-made devil. Self-confident faith in one's self is both the man-made weapon which defeats this devil and the man-made tool which builds a triumphant life. And it is more than that. It is a link to the irresistible forces of the universe which stand behind a man who does not believe in failure and defeat as being anything but temporary experiences.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Fear

• It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.

  

  Christopher Hampton
  • Violence
  • Face
  • Ethics

• Mindfulness is like a microscope; it is neither an offensive nor defensive weapon in relation to the germs we observe through it. The function of the microscope is just to clearly present what is there.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Present
  • Weapon
  • Mindfulness

• It's not exactly the way you want to have a team win a game, but when you have to win a game, it's great to have that weapon to be able to do that.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Great
  • Game
  • Team

• To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

  

  Aristotle
  • True
  • Death
  • Trouble

• All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Wells
  • Cowardice

• Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures; such a smile, if the artful but know it, is the greatest weapon a face can have.

  

  Helen Hunt
  • Face
  • Weapon
  • Transfiguring

• Where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

  

  Plato
  • Rule
  • Lovers
  • Cowardice

• Knowing what's correct and not doing it, it's the worst cowardice.

  

  Confucius
  • Knowing
  • Correct
  • Cowardice

• The method of nonviolence seeks not to humiliate and not to defeat the oppressor, but it seeks to win his friendship and his understanding. And thereby and therefore the aftermath of this method is reconciliation.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Friendship
  • Nonviolence
  • Aftermath

• In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of nonviolence and the Christian ethic of love is the best weapon available to Negroes for this struggle for freedom and human dignity. It may well be that the Gandhian approach will bring about a solution to the race problem in America. His spirit is a continual reminder to oppressed people that it is possible to resist evil and yet not resort to violence.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • People
  • Problem
  • Weapon

• I’m saying there is evil in the world,” Master Kit said, hefting the box on his hip, “and doubt is the weapon that guards against it.

  

  Daniel Abraham
  • World
  • Saying
  • Weapon

• The fear of fat works ... because it's being manipulated in us to enforce class divisions, racisms, womyn-hatred. And we give it the room to work because it's so close to us, it's our own bodies, that we don't see it as coming from outside ourselves, we don't name it for the weapon it is.

  

  Elana Dykewomon
  • Work
  • Fear
  • Racism

• I think Canada deserves a forthrightly left electoral alternative. I don't see the advantage for our democracy in having a number of parties crowded in the centre. The Liberals are experts at co-opting left language and framings during campaigns, and historically, we know they don't govern like that.

  

  Avi Lewis
  • Advantage
  • Canada
  • Campaigns

• I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • School

• It’s like when footballers run underwater in water tanks…There’s a high pressure against your body. If you can run fast in a water tank, when they take you out of the water, you can run way faster because there’s less pressure. I used to go on to radio sets and be spraying so fast, people would be like, ‘How are you doing that?’

  

  AJ Tracey
  • People
  • Doing
  • Pressure

• Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Weapon
  • Nonviolence
  • Cowardice