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

• 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

• I'm not sure that love and like aren't like cats and dogs: One can't grow up to be the other, but they can be taught to live under the same roof.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Up
  • Live
  • Dog

• It doesn’t make sense, it’s not logical, it’s not a safe profession or a smart profession if you wanna make money or have a living or have a family. So the fact that we keep doing theatre means we’re getting something from it that is almost childlike in its innocence.

  

  Santino Fontana
  • Mean
  • Smart
  • Theatre

• American culture has always known success, not suffering, so we've never known what to do with this part of the Bible. The more we succeed, the more we're seduced into thinking we can control everything. We dissect Revelation to get a sense of control over the future.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Thinking
  • American
  • Future

• As soon as me and Willow started releasing music, that’s one thing that the whole world took away is, okay, they unlocked another step of honesty. If these guys can be honest about everything, then we can be more honest.

  

  Jaden Smith
  • World
  • Music
  • Honesty

• How can I make difference so that I may bring peace to this world that I love and cherish so much? A name flickers instantly in my mind.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Difference
  • My Mind
  • Cherish

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

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Virtue
  • Nonviolence
  • Cultivated