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

• I am over the moon! We are both over the moon and will be even more so when this is over.

  

  Prince Andrew
  • Moon

• Whales are drinking all our water and eating our sailors.

  

  Maddox
  • Water
  • Drinking

• In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Force
  • Surrender
  • Code

• I think if a writer is not endeavoring to expand and alter consciousness in himself and in his readers, he is not doing much of anything. It is precisely words, word lines, lines of words and images, and associations connected with these word and image lines in the brain, that keep you in present time, right where you are sitting now.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Thinking
  • Brain
  • Consciousness

• Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the sight or the hearing.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Force
  • Hearing
  • Association

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

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Association
  • Civil Disobedience
  • Vindication