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

  

  Anton Chekhov

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

  

  Kelly Masterson
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• 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
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• 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

• The Internet was full of sites producing content for free, in the hope that somehow they'd generate revenue from sources that never materialized, whether it was advertising, subscriptions, or a wing and a prayer.

  

  Craig Mundie
  • Hope
  • Free
  • Prayer

• I know that collector types can be a pain in the neck and seem perpetually frozen in time - or at least in their parents' basement - but someone has to look out for the past, lest it slip away forever.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Past
  • Pain
  • Forever

• Doing the right thing has power.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Power
  • The Right Thing

• The people you choose must (a) make you think smarter and (b) put lots of solutions on the table in a short amount of time. I don’t care who it is, the janitor or the intern or one of your most trusted lieutenants: If they can help you do that, they should be at the table.” Believe me, you don’t want to be at a company where there is more candor in the hallways than in the rooms where fundamental ideas or matters of policy are being hashed out. The best inoculation against this fate? Seek out people who are willing to level with you, and when you find them, hold them close.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Help
  • Fate
  • Choose

• 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