Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush in us the spirit of resistance, has made us think we cannot look after ourselves or put up a defense against foreign aggression, or even defend our homes and families.

Mahatma Gandhi

• Families
• Resistance
• Occupation
• Disarmament
• Foreign Aggression

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• Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.

  

  Walther Bothe
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  • Process
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• The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Up
  • Path
  • Wind

• Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman's play 'Happy and Glorious,' with its Ernest Shepard illustrations.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Happy
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• In 1998, it was possible to make a big-screen romantic comedy about email. Yep, email - the same medium we often think of now as boring and even annoying.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Think
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• There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words.

  

  Kate Seredy
  • Words
  • Deep
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• My parents made me believe I could do anything I wanted to do. They were really into empowering me.

  

  Pierre Omidyar
  • Believe
  • Parents
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• The neutral view of free will is impossible. It involves choice without desire.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Free
  • Desire
  • Impossible

• They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that needs constant attention. Even three months apart allows the weeds to grow up between you.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Up
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• I know that you are a stone, you do not cause benefit or harm; and if it were not that I had seen Allâh’s Messenger (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam) kiss you, I would never have kissed you.

  

  Umar
  • Kiss
  • Benefits
  • Kissing

• We have come from a time of the large-scale, planned, Al Qaeda-style attacks, to the encouragement of lone wolves: Fort Hood, Chattanooga. To the encouragement of people to act on their own.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Time
  • Style

• A good cover has a distinct silhouette

  

  J. C. Leyendecker
  • Good
  • Silhouettes

• When I played the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year's Eve, I got to bring Wiley, my 85-pound black lab. He's responsible for my favorite New Year's memory of all: At the end of the show, he ran onstage and then out across all the tables in the showroom, sending champagne glasses and gamblers flying.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Black
  • Memory
  • Flying

• Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Fighter
  • Breaks
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• We just felt like what we were doing would be appreciated by someone else. We've enjoyed it, but it's nice to pass it on and not just put it away in a drawer somewhere.

  

  Margaret Anderson
  • Nice
  • Appreciated
  • Drawer

• Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Religion
  • Blind

• Is every moment of our lives built into us before we're born? If it is, does it make us less responsible for the things we do, or is the responsibility built in too?

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Responsibility
  • Moments
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• Meditation is valuable for all of humanity because it involves looking inward. People don't have to be religious to look inside themselves more carefully. It is constructive and worthwhile to analyze our emotions, including compassion and our sense of caring, so that we can become more calm and happy.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Happy
  • Religious

• Be grateful for every single person who was part of your story.The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. Because they all taught you.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Single
  • Hurt
  • Stories

• I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society.

  

  Elise M. Boulding
  • Change
  • Families
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• Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • She
  • Famous
  • Popular

• I'm not always what I think I am, but I am what I think.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Thinking

• Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Children
  • Words
  • Poetry

• There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Worship
  • Satan
  • Bows

• Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush in us the spirit of resistance, has made us think we cannot look after ourselves or put up a defense against foreign aggression, or even defend our homes and families.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Families
  • Resistance
  • Occupation