Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means.

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• I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.

  

  M. Ward
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• Liberty means more to me than life itself.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Life
  • Liberty
  • More

• 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
  • Way
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• Violent anger makes me physically ill.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Me
  • Anger
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• There's no question that jihad historically means war.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • War
  • Question
  • Means

• The most violent expression of God's wrath and justice is seen in the Cross. If ever a person had room to complain for injustice, it was Jesus. He was the only innocent man ever to be punished by God. If we stagger at the wrath of God, let us stagger at the Cross. Here is where our astonishment should be focused.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Justice
  • Jesus

• You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Think
  • End
  • Means

• Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.

  

  Idries Shah
  • May
  • Power
  • Exercise

• To innovate does not necessarily mean to expand; very often it means to simplify.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Means
  • Expand
  • Innovate

• So long as man resists a situation, he will have it with him.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Long
  • Man
  • Situation

• Nothing on earth can resist an absolutely non-resistant person.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Earth
  • Person
  • Resist

• 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
  • Marriage
  • Means
  • Vegas

• The content of many cutting-edge games is becoming more and more vivid, violent, and offensive to our most basic values.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Games
  • Cutting
  • Values

• Intercession means raising ourselves up to the point of getting the mind of Christ regarding the person for whom we are praying.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Christ

• Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'

  

  Al Pacino
  • Violent
  • Shakespeare
  • Scarface

• I try to eat on the healthier side, but baked goods are hard to resist. I just love sweet things.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Sweet
  • Eat
  • Resist

• Since I had the baby I can't tolerate anything violent or sad, I saw the Matrix and I had my eyes closed through a lot of it, though I didn't need to. I would peek, and then think, oh OK, I can see that.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Eyes
  • Baby
  • Sad

• Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Die
  • Means
  • Suppose

• Struggle is what it means to be alive and free.

  

  David Budbill
  • Free
  • Struggle
  • Alive

• . . . Newton was an unquestioning believer in an all-wise creator of the universe, and in his own inability - like the boy on the seashore - to fathom the entire ocean in all its depths. He therefore believed that there were not only many things in heaven beyond his philosophy, but plenty on earth as well, and he made it his business to understand for himself what the majority of intelligent men of his time accepted without dispute (to them it was as natural as common sense) - the traditional account of the creation.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Universe
  • Creator
  • Beliver

• I think the biggest disservice to the American people was the denial by the networks to air video of the beheading of Daniel Pearl, Nick Berg, or the many other hostages that were beheaded in Iraq. We as a society need to see the type of enemy we are fighting. People have been so sheltered in this country that they have not paid attention to what has been going on for the last twenty-some years. And today, even after the attack of September 11, people still cannot fathom that this type of barbarity could happen here.

  

  Brigitte Gabriel
  • Iraq
  • American People
  • Disservice

• We, PANTERA, had the greatest, the most intense, dedicated fans I've ever seen in my ******* life. And I really hope with all my heart that one day, people - especially our fans and my friends - can see clearly enough to think for themselves and really realize that I have nothing but love for them. I've just been going through personal hell since December. Once again, it's very hard to talk about, man. You know, my heart is in a thousand pieces a day.

  

  Phil Anselmo Pantera
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Hope

• God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Sometimes
  • Wishes

• It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Means
  • Violent
  • Resist