Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Many an individual has turned from the mean, personal, acquisitive point of view to one that sees society as a whole and works for its benefit. If there has been such a change in one person, there can be the same change in many.

Mahatma Gandhi

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• Through every victory and every setback, I've insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn't meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Change
  • Challenges
  • Victory

• The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Art
  • History
  • Today

• After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.

  

  Manju Warrier
  • Women
  • Change
  • Marriage

• If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have retired. I would have played for Wales longer.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Time
  • Career
  • Change

• Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Nature
  • Society
  • Wish

• The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • May
  • Power
  • Change

• Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • Art
  • Help
  • Society

• Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Change

• The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • America
  • Society
  • Free

• The fundamental vision hasn't changed. What does change is how you get there, because there are still problems you have to figure out.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Change
  • Vision
  • Problems

• I have been talking to a lot of people who don't normally vote Democratic - independents and Republicans. They have been voting for Democrats because they think it's important to change the direction America is going.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Important
  • America

• Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Society
  • Individual
  • Early

• The Tea Party movement went off on a more extreme agenda that I did not support at all, and was very frustrated by it, to the point that not only did I change parties, I decided to do something about it and run for Congress.

  

  Patrick Murphy
  • Change
  • Support
  • Party

• When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • American
  • Think
  • Society

• Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Book
  • Remember

• The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Up
  • Society
  • Focus

• We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?

  

  Laura Wade
  • Society
  • Create
  • Equal

• I was pretty much a hippie. I was a vegetarian, gypsy-like. I liked to meditate, and it's curious because I was very much attracted to the possibility of change.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Pretty
  • Change
  • Curious

• We actually might get a lot of letters and phone calls from normal society.

  

  Adam Goldberg
  • Society
  • Normal
  • Letters

• Money does not change people, it unmasks them.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Money
  • Change
  • Unmasks

• How do we create only games that we actually feel like playing, because we can opt out at any time? In the economic field, at least, the answer is obvious. All of the gratuitous sadism of workplace politics depends on one’s inability to say 'I quit' and feel no economic consequences.

  

  David Graeber
  • Time
  • Workplace

• The rulers of Great Britain have, for more than a century past, amused the people with the imagination that they possessed a great empire on the west side of the Atlantic. This empire, however, has hitherto existed in imagination only.

  

  Adam Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Past

• Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.

  

  John Charles Polanyi
  • Good

• Many an individual has turned from the mean, personal, acquisitive point of view to one that sees society as a whole and works for its benefit. If there has been such a change in one person, there can be the same change in many.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Society
  • Change
  • Point Of View