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
  • Energy
  • Process
  • Negative

• 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
  • Reading
  • Passion

• 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
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

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

  

  Kate Seredy
  • Words
  • Deep
  • Reach

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

  

  Pierre Omidyar
  • Believe
  • Parents
  • Empowering

• We want to raise the children the parents aren't raising. I think we want to press individuality on people, though that doesn't necessarily mean being like us. But, it doesn't mean that if you come dressed like us that you aren't being yourself.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • People
  • Children
  • Parents

• 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
  • Age
  • Attention

• 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

• It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . .

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Important
  • Evil
  • Fighting

• 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
  • Makers

• 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
  • Doe

• 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

• Our duties naturally emerge form such fundamental relations as our families, neighborhoods, workplaces, our state or nation. Make it your regular habit to consider your roles-parent, child, neighbor, citizen, leader-and the natural duties that arise from them. Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do.

  

  Epictetus
  • Know
  • Families
  • Relations

• Any characteristic that you can't stand in another person is an aspect of you that you can't stand in yourself. Once you discover that this characteristic is also in you, your resistance towards the other person gets replaced with compassion.

  

  Bill Ferguson
  • Compassion
  • Aspect
  • Resistance

• Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

  

  Moshe Dayan
  • Soul
  • Freedom
  • Oxygen

• 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