Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.

Mahatma Gandhi

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• I realized that I'm a soft person. I think I'm sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I'm quite a sensitive young lady in some respects.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Movie
  • Stars
  • Tough

• What of the tale of Balaam's ass speaking to him, probably in Hebrew? Is it true, or is it a fable? Many asses have spoken, and doubtless some in Hebrew, but they have not been that breed of asses. Is salvation to depend on a belief in a monstrosity like this?

  

  Clarence Darrow
  • True

• I know what it is to be out entertaining millions and yet wanting to be home because you miss your loved ones.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Home

• There is a long dishonourable tradition of western intellectuals who have been duped by Moscow. The list includes Bernard Shaw, the Webbs, H. G. Wells, and Andre Gide.

  

  Luke Harding
  • Long

• I have always kept in mind the advice of Ronaldinho, and he spoke wonders of Barcelona and the city, which he told me is marvellous.

  

  Neymar
  • Mind
  • City
  • Advice

• I like to keep people guessing.

  

  Jerry West
  • People

• The last thing I'd learn, well into my career, was how to get on, how to say hello, how to get in with the audience.

  

  Phyllis Diller
  • Career

• When I was old enough to know better, I ate a bar of soap in the shape of the Muppets' Fozzie Bear, because I loved him so much I wanted to consume him, even if doing so made me ill. I didn't yet know the word 'foreshadowing.' Fozzie was the only first of many pop-culture icons I feel shaped by.

  

  Emma Forrest
  • Culture

• I know New Yorkers are gonna vote for a candidate - me - who has the longest record of delivering for them. They want a mayor who can deliver for them. And I'm the only one - I don't care who gets in - who has that record.

  

  Christine Quinn

• Black America has always felt itself divided into two classes: the mucky-mucks and the folk.

  

  Darryl Pinckney
  • America
  • Black

• I am glad to have the opportunity of standing up against a rabble of men who hasten to make weathercocks of themselves.

  

  James A. Garfield
  • Up
  • Men
  • Opportunity

• Politics is dirty, and I don't like to talk about dirty things... My conscience is clear.

  

  Johannes Heesters
  • Dirty

• Some things you'll never know, and some things you'll wish you never knew.

  

  Eric Williams Blackstreet
  • Wish

• I have swum against the stream all my life. It's not something I feel uncomfortable with. Is it difficult? Is it unpleasant? You bet.

  

  Brian De Palma
  • Life
  • Stream
  • Swum

• The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it.

  

  William Styron
  • Pain
  • Visible
  • Anguish

• The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, else there would be no advantage in studying it. For that reason, it becomes necessary to examine the problem of our actions and to ask how they are to be performed. For as we have said, the actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

  

  Aristotle
  • Knowledge
  • Purpose
  • Virtue

• The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Obedience
  • Civil Disobedience
  • Charkha

• Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Challenge
  • Civil Disobedience
  • Stimulation

• The point is, the Four Stages are not for ego-development or attainment; they are a skilful means for recognizing the way we cling to things.

  

  Ajahn Sumedho
  • Development
  • Point
  • Attainment

• Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Attainment
  • Civil Disobedience
  • Independance