Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.

Mahatma Gandhi

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• A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Good
  • Worry
  • Security

• Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Think
  • Hate
  • Taken

• My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself, I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • God
  • Character

• Animals tell us something. If the animals have suffered this way from GMOs, potentially for us, let’s listen to what they’re telling us. Let’s take heed.

  

  Jane Goodall

• I look back at 'Saturday Night Live' and I think, some people didn't like me doing 'Weekend Update.' Who cares? A lot of people did. When you're reaching that many people, you're not going to have everybody like you.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • People
  • Live
  • Night

• I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • People

• I'm communicating with the directors of the Soviet companies, and I see that it is wrong, but when I go to the official discussions, they discuss we should change the color of the walls.

  

  Anatoly Chubais
  • Color

• This argument too shows that in truth we know nothing about anything, but every man shares the generally prevailing opinion.

  

  Democritus
  • Truth
  • Opinion

• One way to identify the optimal human diet, pretty obvious to all but fundamentalist reductionists, is to survey and compare populations as they already exist, and see what they eat and how healthy they are.

  

  T. Colin Campbell
  • Pretty
  • Way
  • Healthy

• If you need counsel, start with the One who is both Counselor and King - the One who is the source of both wisdom and power.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • God
  • Power
  • Wisdom

• Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Ideas
  • Painting
  • Abundance

• Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse!

  

  Archimedes
  • History
  • Learned
  • Reverse

• I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" - one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Dream
  • Alabama
  • Racists

• The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man."

  

  Diogenes
  • Hope
  • Question
  • Answer

• A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Slave
  • Cage
  • Deputy

• Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Art
  • Violence
  • Learn

• My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Danger
  • Nonviolence
  • Running Away

• So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.

  

  Satish Kumar
  • Nonviolence
  • Monk

• If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nonviolence
  • Self-evident