Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.

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• I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • War
  • Think
  • Middle East

• So, I get a kick out of working with the media.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Working
  • Media
  • Out

• Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Job
  • Walk

• I usually play big and mean, big and stupid, or big and funny.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Funny
  • Play
  • Stupid

• In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • She
  • Mom
  • Daughter

• Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Power
  • Dark
  • Deep

• We want to let our play be the judges.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Want
  • Play
  • Judges

• We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • People
  • Together
  • Hope

• Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Enemy
  • Thoughtful

• There are some characters in 'The Names' who are very much heroes and others who can only be called villains. But generally, as we get to know them, we see most of the characters are, or at least become, quite nuanced.

  

  Peter Milligan

• Loyalty and religion have many meanings, and self-interest is a skilled interpreter.

  

  John Buchan
  • Loyalty

• I really feel a sense of responsibility first as a creation of a force that I call God, that's bigger than myself. And because I'm black, I feel the responsibility to that. I feel the responsibility to my womanness. But more importantly, I feel a responsibility to my humanness.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • God
  • Black
  • Responsibility

• I've been accused of humanizing the Nazis, to which I can only say, you can't blame me for that. God did that. Go talk to him. It's a strange thing for an atheist to say.

  

  W. D. Snodgrass
  • God
  • Strange
  • Blame

• Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • Justice
  • Opinion
  • Hero

• Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute.

  

  Aristotle
  • Feeling
  • Virtue
  • Modesty

• Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Government
  • Virtue
  • Machine

• It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature has laid the foundations or sown the seeds of the virtues. We are born to them all, all of us, and when a person comes along with the necessary stimulus, then those qualities of the personality are awakened, so to speak, from their slumber.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Desire
  • Quality
  • Personality

• Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Virtue
  • Nonviolence
  • Cultivated