Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.

Mahatma Gandhi

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• But also, the guest workers program, it's quite often misused, meaning people could come in as part of a guest workers program and after two weeks in the fields, they'd run off to do every other kind of job that isn't covered by a guest workers program.

  

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• I just didn't make music that you could sing with a big grin, still don't.

  

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• Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• I was, like, a total cliched '80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair.

  

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• I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.

  

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• Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world, I want to be the one to walk in the sun.

  

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• It is important for us to make a distinction between the spiritual fruit of joy and the cultural concept of happiness. A Christian can have joy in his heart while there is still spiritual depression in his head. The joy that we have sustains us through these dark nights and is not quenched by spiritual depression. The joy of the Christian is one that survives all downturns in life.

  

  R. C. Sproul
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• I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship. Instead, I believe in searching for a kind of love that somehow involves all of humanity.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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• Don't ever take advice from anyone who starts a sentence with, 'You may not like me for this, but it's for your own good - ' It never is.

  

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• I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings a lot of the time.

  

  Andrew Motion
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• If you are going to think black, think positive about it. Don't think down on it, or think it is something in your way. And this way, when you really do want to stretch out and express how beautiful black is, everybody will hear you.

  

  Leontyne Price
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• The trade agreement itself does have labor and environmental protections, but we have to stand for human rights and we have to make sure that violence isn't being perpetrated against workers who are just trying to organize for their rights.

  

  Barack Obama
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• It's a sad state of affairs when we make fun of people for reading instead of making reading fun for people.

  

  Jen Selinsky
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• I feel good. I wanted to go ahead and do everything, but the eyes were on me and told me not to. I just hit and took it easy, then did the running, which turned out OK.

  

  Gary Sheffield
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• Society will be obeyed; if you refuse obedience, you must take the consequences. Society has only one law, and that is custom. Even religion itself is socially powerful only just so far as it has custom on its side.

  

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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• If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction.

  

  Albert Camus
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• When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
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  • Obedience

• They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Kill
  • Obedience
  • Torture