Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.

Mahatma Gandhi

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• There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • No Fear

• I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Good
  • Character
  • Age

• In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Money
  • Why

• More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Women
  • Country
  • Respect

• I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Book
  • Experiences
  • Sell

• The crown of literature is poetry.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Poetry
  • Literature
  • Crown

• I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Believe
  • Teach
  • I Believe

• I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Want
  • Rock
  • Seem

• The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Acting

• The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Life
  • Art
  • Kitchen

• I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Love
  • Success

• Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • Done
  • Today

• You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Know

• If we all band together against extremism and spend a few minutes a day using tools that have been proven to work, we can make a big difference in defending those values we share as Americans.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Work
  • Together
  • Day

• I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Mother
  • Desire
  • Myself

• Is an out-of-control life challenge making you feel 'out of control' over your entire life? If so, stop lying around doing nothing. Stop sleeping late. Stop watching too much TV. Start recognizing that this lack of a disciplined schedule will only increase your feelings of being out of control of your life.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Control
  • Stop

• I have a view that if you build something that's good, and you keep making it better, it lasts.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Good
  • Better
  • View

• What the Republicans have said is rather than touch one hair on the heads of the wealthiest people in our country, people who make over $1 million a year, they're saying, 'Seniors should pay $6,000 more dollars a year. But please don't let us ask the wealthiest to do their fair share.'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Country
  • Hair

• Whenever I go out, so many people who respect me ask me what to do in a certain situation. A lot of times, I didn't know the answers because sometimes I was going through the same sort of thing. But then later on, I would think of things that people told me.

  

  Patti LaBelle
  • People
  • Respect

• This summer, we need to let our kids go play and we need to stop worrying about whether or not it's going to ruin their chances of getting into college.

  

  Darell Hammond
  • Kids
  • Stop
  • College

• Paolo Maldini never won, but he was the best defender in the world. Gianluigi Buffon never won; he was the best goalkeeper in the world for many years. But this is the story of the Ballon d'Or.

  

  Antonio Conte
  • World

• Time seemed to suspend itself, or cease altogether. Place faded away. There was only her self, the centre that endured through all times, all events, from the world, from its pain. Timeless, eternal.

  

  Lois Tilton
  • Time
  • World
  • Pain

• On the contrary, a trust in the staying power and travel-worthiness of such good should encourage us to credit the possibility of a world where respect for the validity of every tradition will issue in the creation and maintenance of a salubrious political space.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • World
  • Political
  • Creation

• No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Power
  • Empire