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

• I was not going to be a stupid girl singer. I was going to be way more than that.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Way
  • Singer
  • Stupid Girl

• I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their motives than in the policies they pursue.

  

  William H. Seward
  • Party
  • Virtue
  • Policy

• Worms are the intestines of the earth.

  

  Aristotle
  • Earth
  • Worms
  • Intestines

• It interests me tremendously to make copies... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Education
  • Chance
  • Teach

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

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Virtue
  • Nonviolence
  • Cultivated