Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Democracy can only represent the average if not less than the average.

Mahatma Gandhi

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• All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Work
  • Help
  • Health

• I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Money
  • Most
  • Arrested

• All human beings are, in fact, born with dozens of mutations their parents lacked, and a few of those mutations could well be lethal if we didn't have two copies of every gene, so one can pick up the slack if the other malfunctions.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Human

• We are a very big and vast Government, and naturally, every ministry is becoming bigger and bigger. It becomes, therefore, essential that there should be proper coordination.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Government
  • Big
  • Bigger

• The underdog winning is the romantic position.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Winning
  • Romantic
  • Underdog

• You need a big ego to be an artist.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Artist
  • Need
  • Ego

• You never realise that you have an impact on people's lives. There are so many girls that go through so many problems and who come to me. I really try and take time to speak to as many people as possible.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Time
  • Impact

• I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Israel
  • General
  • Prime Minister

• I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Wish
  • Privacy
  • I Wish

• I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • May
  • Challenge

• Our high school didn't have a crew team - we started the crew team.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • School
  • High
  • Team

• I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Never
  • Boy
  • Old

• Speaking in broken Telugu is one thing, and dubbing is another.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Broken
  • Speaking
  • One Thing

• The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Up
  • True
  • Past

• Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Enthusiasm
  • Common Sense

• Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Great
  • Career
  • Best

• Women have their own strengths, like fashion. In technology, we can contribute in a big way in terms of the design of the user interface.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Women
  • Technology
  • Fashion

• As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so I'm very excited when I notice that.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Help
  • Reading
  • Excited

• It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Journey
  • Expected
  • Farther

• We live in a society that is based on 30-second sound bites. We have technology that puts all of the information of humankind at our fingertips, but we have the attention span of a three-year-old at a carnival midway on the Fourth of July. We throw around a lot of words like democracy, federal, republic, nationalist, socialist, liberal, and right-wing—but do we really know what they mean?

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Society
  • Technology
  • Democracy

• A lot of people think pitchers, and they just think throwing and that's where all the power comes from. It's really not. It starts from the ground up. If you have a strong base, the legs will actually do the work and build all the torque and power you need to throw. So if you have weak legs at the end of the year, that's not good.

  

  Jason Hammel
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• You know, if you need 100 rounds to kill a deer, maybe hunting isn't your sport.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Kill
  • Hunting
  • Sport

• Democracy can only represent the average if not less than the average.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Democracy
  • Average
  • Represent