Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Non-cooperation is an attempt to awaken the masses to a sense of their dignity and power.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.
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The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up.
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September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
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The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
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We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy.
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There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.
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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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The sum total of what I learned about African American culture in school was Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the Underground Railroad. This was more than my mom knew; she didn't even see a black person in real life until she was 18 years old.
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Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
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I locate a great deal of the power of Occupy Wall Street in the name itself, 'Occupy Wall Street,' or '#OccupyWallStreet.' It works because the name contains everything you need to know: the tactic and the target. The name is also modular. You can create your own offshoot in your own city.
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The oars game me power but also taught me humility.
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One time, I was given an essay topic: to describe a perfect horse, whom the mere sight of the rider's whip would make obedient. I depicted this perfect horse throwing his rider at the sight of the whip.
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Non-cooperation is an attempt to awaken the masses to a sense of their dignity and power.
