Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete.

Mahatma Gandhi

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• The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.

  

  Imelda Marcos
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• The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
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• If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
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• 'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

  

  Leif Garrett
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  • Again
  • Anymore

• No more slave States and no more slave territory.

  

  Salmon Portland Chase
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• Just fear me and love me...and do as I say...and I will be your slave.

  

  Anthony Charles Hockley Smith
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• I'm not a master of films. I'm rather a slave.

  

  Ang Lee
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  • Slave
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• Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.

  

  R.J. Rushdoony
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  • Nature
  • Slave

• You must master your time rather than becoming a slave to the constant flow of events and demands on your time. And you must organize your life to achieve balance, harmony, and inner peace.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Time
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• It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Great
  • Mistake
  • Slave

• I struggle with how humankind ended up this way. We made ourselves slaves to money, and we all have to work and be a part of this thing when time is always ticking. And before we know it, a decade has gone by, and did I really get to do everything I wanted to do or say everything I wanted to say?

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Up
  • Time
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• Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of nature.

  

  E. Haldeman-Julius
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  • Men
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• It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves.

  

  Kevin Bales
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  • Slave

• All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down. A vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her.

  

  Adolf Loos
  • Work
  • Art
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• Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.

  

  Walt Disney
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• (Soft petals, yes, but not so barren quite, Mingled with these, smooth bean and wrinkled pea;) And go along with you ere you lose sight Of what you came for and become like me, Slave to a springtime passion for the earth. How love burns through the Putting in the Seed On through the watching for that early birth When, just as the soil tarnishes with weed, The sturdy seedling with arched body comes Shouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs.

  

  Robert Frost
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• Life is not a finished product, it is only what we make of it, and if we make nothing of it, someone else will, and we will be his slave.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
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  • Life is
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• It's easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
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  • Humanity
  • Faces

• There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death.

  

  William Shakespeare
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  • Mercy
  • Fetters

• [Peace] is the highest and most strenuous act of the soul, but an entirely harmonious act, in which all our powers and affections are blending in a beautiful proportion, and sustain and perfect one another. It is more than the silence after storms. It is as the concord of all melodious sounds ... an alliance of love with all beings, a sympathy with all that is pure and happy, a surrender of every separate will and interest, a participation of the spirit and life of the universe.... This is peace, and the true happiness of [humanity].

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Soul
  • Beautiful
  • Perfect

• We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.

  

  Judy Holliday
  • Ships
  • Sail
  • Wavering

• When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Slave
  • Ornaments
  • Fetters