Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.

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• Non-violence is the article of faith.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Faith
  • Violence
  • Nonviolence

• Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • Death
  • Child

• In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • Time
  • Power
  • Existence

• Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Long
  • Fine
  • Nonviolence

• I would consider myself more a passionate centrist.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Myself
  • More
  • Passionate

• 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

• People strangely revere dance. They see it as another world, and dancers are somehow mysterious - just because they don't speak.

  

  Matthew Bourne
  • People
  • World
  • Dance

• Can't you see, we are in a dialogue with the universe?

  

  Charles Jencks
  • Universe

• Whether you want to lose 20 pounds or 200, what the contestants on 'The Biggest Loser' have learned - and taught me - holds true: You've got to make a break. You've got to divorce yourself from the past and find a different way of living. And you can never go back.

  

  Bob Harper
  • Different
  • True
  • Past

• Hymns are companions for life travelers.

  

  Andy Griffith
  • Life
  • Companions
  • Travelers

• I have a solution. I agree for the United Nations forces to be on the borders between me and them for any period of time. Okay? Ezer Weizman challenged me a few days ago to accept an Israeli - Palestinian confederation.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Time
  • Period

• Never let the things money can buy, rob you of the things money can't buy.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Money
  • Things

• People will not be bored. They may listen politely at a dinner table to boasts and personalities, life history, etc. But in print they choose their own companions, their own subjects. They was to be amused or benefitted

  

  Claude C. Hopkins
  • People
  • Life
  • May

• 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

• Girls should be brought up to be comrades and helpers, not to be dolls. They should take a real and not a visionary share in the welfare of the nation.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Up
  • Real
  • Girl

• It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the whole, and (Zeus) has given each of us a body, property, and companions.

  

  Epictetus
  • Harmony
  • Season
  • Companions

• The hard and stiff are death's companions. The soft and weak are life's companions.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Life
  • Weak
  • Companions

• 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

• Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Truth Is
  • Nonviolence

• Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.

  

  Julia Bacha
  • Audience
  • Depend
  • Nonviolence

• I realized when I stopped Charlie's Angels, I didn't do series for a couple of years. And I realized that from the time I was 5 years old when I started school, I had been told when to get up every morning, where to go then, what to do when I got there, when to have lunch, when to come back, what do to after lunch, when to go home, what to study, when to have dinner, and when to go to bed.

  

  Kate Jackson
  • Realized
  • Stopped
  • Charlie`s Angels

• I don't have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Feels
  • States
  • Hopeless

• For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nonviolence
  • Companions
  • Creed