Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.
Quotes to Explore
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There is no way a spirit of resistance that has sunk so deep in the population can be repressed.
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There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.
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The smaller the function, the greater the management.
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I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.
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I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.
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Liberty means more to me than life itself.
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One of the outstanding achievements of the new constructional technique has been the abolition of the separating function of the wall.
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To move up to hardcover is a way of getting more attention for my books. It means a lot to me: It means my books are legitimate.
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There's no question that jihad historically means war.
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When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country.
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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
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Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.
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To innovate does not necessarily mean to expand; very often it means to simplify.
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As I said before, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, and that means that Pennsylvania did not have jurisdiction over the contract of marriage that occurred in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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If America gave anybody anything it is ambition. Bad things would come out of it because some guys are in a hurry, but that doesn't mean they're evil or anything, it just means they fall into bad grace somehow.
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Intercession means raising ourselves up to the point of getting the mind of Christ regarding the person for whom we are praying.
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You become what you believe. And to believe that you are created by the power that's greater than yourself means anything is possible.
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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means ... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.
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Patience means self-suffering.
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If you are bitter, that means they got the best of you. If they got the best of you, that means they won.
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It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost. That you were made of is metal to make virgins. Virginity, by being once lost, may be ten times found: by being ever kept, it is ever lost. ’Tis too cold a companion: away with ’t!
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Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.
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The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.
