Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.

Mahatma Gandhi

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• My children were brought up with their grandparents, and I was brought up with my grandparents. I think the continuity of moving through life together gives people a certain pride and sense of security.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I am sensitive to the fact that other people may have different beliefs.

  

  Ben Carson
  • People
  • Different
  • May

• It takes a good amount of time and money to establish a home. Eviction can erase all that.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Time
  • Good
  • Money

• I've been in love with Washington ever since renting my very first apartment there many years ago while working as a Senate intern.

  

  Danny Meyer

• For the triangle to really work, everybody needs to be on the same page and know how to play it.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • Work

• I've long thought that Marco Rubio would make a strong G.O.P. candidate for president. While he was brought into office by surfing on the Tea Party wave, he has proven himself not to be wedded to the frequent lunacy of those folks.

  

  Kurt Eichenwald
  • Long
  • Strong
  • Party

• The starting point of great success in your life begins, in the simplest terms, when you discipline yourself to think and talk about only the things you want and refuse to think and talk about anything you don't want.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Great
  • Thinking

• If you have been wise and successful I congratulate you. Unless you are unable to forget how successful you have been, then I pity you.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Wise
  • Successful
  • Forget

• The essence of travel is diffuse. It is never there on the spot as it were, but always beyond: its symbol is the horizon, and its interest always lies over that edge in the unseen.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Travel
  • Lies

• Yes, hardships come. But I see in my life and in the lives of others how often something that does not have to be held as a hardship is dealt with by the mind as though it is.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Lives

• There is more to fearlessness than merely having overcome fear... This state of being is not dependent on any external circumstances. It is individual dignity... that comes from being what we are, right now.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Fear
  • Circumstances
  • Dependent

• The English are very proud of their Parliament, and week in, week out, century after century, they have pretty good cause to be.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Proud

• My parents didn't like me. For bathtub toys they gave me a blender and a transistor radio.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Parents
  • Blender
  • Transistor

• All I will say is we get wiser as we get older. And that what I am looking for in life is the same as I always have; happiness, peacefulness and joy. And that's all I'm going to say about that because otherwise I'd get into trouble

  

  George Clooney
  • Joy
  • Trouble
  • Peacefulness

• Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.

  

  Vladimir Kramnik
  • Way
  • Play
  • Games

• Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Concerned
  • God's Will
  • Long Life

• Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Man
  • Manhood
  • Pledge

• So I talk to the dead. They're the only ones who can see the whole story. All they've got is story.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Story
  • See
  • Dead

• There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the expedient, and the pleasant, and their opposites, the base, the harmful, and the painful. Now in respect of all these the good man is likely to go right and the bad to go wrong, but especially in respect of pleasure; for pleasure is common to man with the lower animals, and also it is a concomitant of all the objects of choice, since both the noble and the expedient appear to us pleasant.

  

  Aristotle
  • Pleasure
  • Choice
  • Noble

• You are embarking on the greatest marathon of your career.

  

  Ralph Regula
  • Career
  • Greatest
  • Marathon

• Never assume that a woman is wicked simply because she is ugly and behaves unfavorably towards you. It is unbecoming behavior for a Prince.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Woman
  • Prince
  • Wicked

• An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Good
  • Idea
  • Metaphor

• Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Association
  • Civil Disobedience
  • Vindication