Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.

Mahatma Gandhi

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• Collectors
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• I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• Life is never free of contradictions.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Life
  • Free
  • Never

• It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Said
  • Weakness

• Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing. The limitation, and the basis arising from what is already actual, are both of them necessary and interconnected.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Reality
  • Growth
  • Creativity

• If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

  

  Anton Chekhov

• Success, to me, is something new and vibrant.

  

  Kelly Masterson
  • Success

• The intense media coverage of today's campus shootings presents a double edged sword. On the one hand, it gives us a chance to think about and reflect on the causes; on the other hand, in a very small minority of unstable minds, the repeated telling of the stories can be interpreted as glamorous.

  

  Matthew Pearl
  • Today
  • Small
  • Hand

• Fashion is fun, but it's not that important, really, is it? It's important to have other intellectual and creative interests.

  

  Jerry Hall
  • Important
  • Fun
  • Fashion

• People aren't really mean to me, but people say random things.

  

  Kiersey Clemons
  • People
  • Random

• No actor in the world started off at the top.

  

  Daniela Ruah
  • World

• Often, when cheating happens, we rush to place blame solely on one person - either the person who did the cheating, or more insidiously, if it happened to us, we blame ourselves for not being 'good enough' to keep them around. But putting it all on one person doesn't paint the entire picture.

  

  Emily V. Gordon
  • Good
  • Picture
  • Cheating

• I'm never without Nerds and peanut M&M's. I have a sweet tooth! I have an unlimited supply on hand at home, but the candy packs in my purse are not for sharing.

  

  Joanna Garcia
  • Home
  • Hand
  • Sweet

• I'm not on Twitter.

  

  Megan Fox

• We cannot let ourselves be infantalized. We cannot let ourselves be stereotyped.

  

  Marine Le Pen

• The orators - and the despots - have the least power in their cities … since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.

  

  Plato
  • Power
  • Wish

• [On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.

  

  Edward G. Robinson
  • Trying
  • Friends
  • Father

• One policeman may be a friend, but two are the Law.

  

  Margery Allingham
  • May
  • Law
  • Friend

• And all my endeavours are unlucky explorers come back, abandoning the expedition; the specimens, the lilies of ambition still spring in their climate, still unpicked; but time, time is all I lacked to find them, as the great collectors before me.

  

  Gavin Douglas
  • Time
  • Collectors
  • Explorers

• For me, the question was, how can one take a live-action performance and put it in the parameter of one of those cartoons? How much can you get away with?

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Question
  • Performance
  • Cartoons

• That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment.

  

  Scott Turow
  • Say
  • Punishment
  • Push

• It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there's an email, most of the time there's a letter, someone wants something of you.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Knowing
  • Rings
  • E-mail

• The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Revenue
  • Policeman
  • Collectors