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.Mahatma Gandhi
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.
Oliver Tambo -
There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
The smaller the function, the greater the management.
C. Northcote Parkinson -
I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.
Salman Rushdie -
I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.
M. Ward -
One of the outstanding achievements of the new constructional technique has been the abolition of the separating function of the wall.
Walter Gropius
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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.
Karen Robards -
There's no question that jihad historically means war.
Pat Robertson -
When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country.
Bashar al-Assad -
You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
Idries Shah -
Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.
Idries Shah -
To innovate does not necessarily mean to expand; very often it means to simplify.
M. Russell Ballard
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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.
Larry Burns -
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.
Jack Kirby -
Intercession means raising ourselves up to the point of getting the mind of Christ regarding the person for whom we are praying.
Oswald Chambers -
You become what you believe. And to believe that you are created by the power that's greater than yourself means anything is possible.
Oprah Winfrey -
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.
Kingsley Amis -
Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Expect resistance but pray for miracles!
Corrie Ten Boom -
To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Sarah Palin is an empty vessel ready to be filled by ideology that she doesn't even understand, and that is really scary. Nothing is more frightening than an empty vessel in power.
Chris Matthews -
The privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society quite unlike any we have seen - a society in which government may intrude into the secret regions of a life.
William O. Douglas -
The moment you try to institutionalize art, it ceases to be art.
Allen Wier -
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.
Mahatma Gandhi