Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them.

Mahatma Gandhi

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• The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Life
  • Will
  • Loss

• When I wrote 'The West Wing,' the juice behind it was that in popular culture, our leaders in government are generally portrayed as Machiavellian, or as idiots. I thought, well, how about writing about a group of hyper-competent people?

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Writing
  • Culture

• I am proud to be a member of the Congress of the United States.

  

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  • Proud
  • United States
  • Member

• My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Style
  • Dresses
  • Girly

• Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Powerful
  • Imagination
  • Exercise

• Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Lord
  • Created
  • Sins

• How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Political
  • Mean
  • Battle

• Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Children
  • Problem
  • Violence

• I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Eye
  • End
  • Short

• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • World
  • Men
  • Experience

• I love the idea of giving up the vengeful nature that so many of us have.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Nature
  • Giving
  • Idea

• I've heard that we come on earth in pairs, get separated only to meet once again through marriage. So whoever is there on this earth for me will eventually get paired with me. Till then, I'll enjoy my singlehood.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Earth
  • Marriage
  • Enjoy

• I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Country
  • Stop
  • Drug

• Death is the beginning of something.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Death
  • Beginning
  • Something

• I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.

  

  Carlos Mesa
  • Going
  • Run
  • Away

• I find it to be easier to write from a man's point of view.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Man
  • View
  • Point Of View

• I sang in the glee club and church choir, but I never sang a solo. I never thought of myself as a singer, and that might have crossed your mind, too.

  

  Jim Nabors
  • Mind
  • Church

• I think that that integrity is something that is important to voters.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Important
  • Think
  • Integrity

• At the earliest age, when I saw a 'wet paint' sign, I had to touch the paint to see if it was wet. When I get stopped at the stoplight in the middle of the night, and there's just no cars coming, and the light is red, I go. I don't think I'm putting anyone in harm's way, and I'll just take the consequences. Because I'm a Libertarian.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Age
  • Night
  • Light

• People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • People
  • Different
  • Light

• One naked star has waded through The purple shadows of the night,And faltering as falls the dew It drips its misty light.

  

  James Whitcomb Riley
  • Night
  • Light
  • Star

• Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Light
  • Crime
  • Prowling