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First They Gandhi Quotes By Joseph Lelyveld

By the time Gandhi met Muhammad Ali in Delhi in April 1915it was, Gandhi said, 'love at first sight.' — Joseph Lelyveld

First They Gandhi Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

Truth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you. — Mahatma Gandhi

First They Gandhi Quotes By Meghnad Desai

India had a very long independence movement. It started in 1886, [with] the first generation of Western-educated Indians. They were all liberals. They followed the Liberal Party in Britain, and they were very proud of their knowledge of parliamentary systems, parliamentary manners. They were big debaters. They [had], as it were, a long apprenticeship in training for being in power. Even when Gandhi made it a mass movement, the idea of elective representatives, elected working committees, elected leadership, all that stayed because basically Indians wanted to impress the British that they were going to be as good as the British were at running a parliamentary democracy. And that helped quite a lot. — Meghnad Desai

First They Gandhi Quotes By T.C.A. Srinivasa Raghavan

P. C. Bhattacharya was the first non-ICS man to be appointed to the job and he had a soft ride. But in what would cause a major uproar today in Parliament and in the media, when the rupee was devalued by a huge 36 per cent in 1966, he was merely informed. The decision had been taken by Indira Gandhi in March that year when she visited the United States and met the representatives of the World Bank and IMF. But she kept it to herself till June. Even the finance minister didn't know, let alone the poor RBI governor. — T.C.A. Srinivasa Raghavan

First They Gandhi Quotes By Ramachandra Guha

For perhaps the first time in public, he used the neutral 'Africans' instead of the pejorative 'Kaffirs'. The change in language reflected a deeper change in his way of thinking about the world. When he first came to South Africa, Gandhi had pleaded for Indians to be distinguished from Africans, whom he then considered 'uncivilized'. Now, fifteen years later, he brought all races within a single ambit. They all had similar hopes, and would one day have the same rights. In the future, Indians and Africans would be absolutely free men, mingling with Boers and Britons in a nation where one's citizenship did not depend on the colour of one's skin. — Ramachandra Guha

First They Gandhi Quotes By Osho

Gandhi said, "I'm going to throw all the arms into the ocean and send all the armies to work in the fields and in the gardens." And Louis Fischer asked, "But have you forgotten? Somebody can invade your country." Gandhi said, "We will welcome them. If somebody invades us, we will accept him as a guest and tell him, 'You can also live here, just the way we are living. There is no need to fight.'" But he completely forgot all his philosophy - that's how revolutions fail. It is very beautiful to talk about these things, but when power comes into your hands . . . First, Mahatma Gandhi did not accept any post in the government. It was out of fear, because how was he going to answer the whole world if they asked about throwing the weapons into the ocean? What about sending the armies to work in the fields? He escaped from the responsibility for which he had been fighting his whole life, seeing that it was going to create tremendous trouble for him. If — Osho

First They Gandhi Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

The art that is in the machine-made article, appeals only to the eye; the art in Khadi appeals first to the heart and then to the eye. — Mahatma Gandhi

First They Gandhi Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win. — Mahatma Gandhi

First They Gandhi Quotes By Ramachandra Guha

In 1951 Dec 20th, Nehru, while campaigning for the first democratic elections in India, took a short break to address a UNESCO symposium in Delhi. Although he believed democracy was the best form of governance, while speaking at the symposium he wondered loud...
the quality of men who are selected by these modern democratic methods of adult franchise gradually deteriorates because of lack of thinking and the noise of propaganda....He[the voter] reacts to sound and to the din, he reacts to repetition and he produces either a dictator or a dumb politician who is insensitive. Such a politician can stand all the din in the world and still remain standing on his two feet and, therefore, he gets selected in the end because the others have collapsed because of the din.
-Quoted from India After Gandhi, page 157. — Ramachandra Guha

First They Gandhi Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

Let every young man and woman be warned by my example, and understand that good handwriting is a necessary part of education. I am now of the opinion that children should first be taught the art of drawing before learning how to write. Let the child learn his letters by observation as he does different objects, such as flowers, birds, etc., and let him learn handwriting only after he has learnt to draw objects. He will then write a beautifully formed hand. — Mahatma Gandhi

First They Gandhi Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

The first thing to bear in mind is that Arjuna falls into the error of making a distinction between kinsmen and outsiders. Outsiders may be killed even if they are not oppressors, and kinsmen may not be killed even if they are. The — Mahatma Gandhi

First They Gandhi Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

If there ever is to be a republic of every village in India, then I claim verity for my picture in which the last is equal to the first or, in other words, no one is to be the first and none the last. — Mahatma Gandhi

First They Gandhi Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

There is an incident which occurred at the examination during my first year at the high school and which is worth recording. Mr. Giles, the Educational Inspector, had come on a visit of inspection. He had set us five words to write as a spelling exercise. One of the words was 'kettle'. I had mis-spelt it. The teacher tried to prompt me with the point of his boot, but I would not be prompted. It was beyond me to see that he wanted me to copy the spelling from my neighbour's slate, for I had thought that the teacher was there to supervise us against copying. The result was that all the boys, except myself, were found to have spelt every word correctly. Only I had been stupid. The teacher tried later to bring this stupidity home to me, but without effect. I never could learn the art of 'copying'. — Mahatma Gandhi

First They Gandhi Quotes By Elliot Perlman

Gandhi, Harlem, Christ, Jews in Europe, a black man living over there on Broadway in the Union Theological Seminary in 1930: you never know the connections between things, people, places, ideas. You never know where you'll find them.most people don't know where to find them or even that there's any point to finding them. Who even looks? Who's got time to look? Whose job is it to look? Ours. Historians. It's part of our job. The more you know, the more you read, the better will be your intuition. You can use your intuition as first order Geiger counter of likelihood, of probability and also for starting new lines of enquiry. But whatever you end up doing for a living, wherever you do it, you'll need intuition and curiosity, add much of it as you can muster. Develop these as an athlete develops muscles and impulses. — Elliot Perlman

First They Gandhi Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

It is necessary first to purify the drunken and dissolute worshippers in charge of some of these temples. — Mahatma Gandhi

First They Gandhi Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

There is no doubt that our last state will be worse than our first, if we surrender our reason into somebody's keeping. — Mahatma Gandhi

First They Gandhi Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

I claim to know my millions. All the hours of the day I am with them. They are my first care and God that is to be found in the hearts of the dumb millions. — Mahatma Gandhi

First They Gandhi Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

First they ignore you, then they denounce you, and then they say that they knew what you were saying all the time. — Mahatma Gandhi

First They Gandhi Quotes By Debasish Mridha

In order to succeed, we must first dream. Then we must believe in that dream and take action. — Debasish Mridha

First They Gandhi Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

In the very first month of Indian Opinion, I realized that the sole aim of journalism should be service. The newspaper press is a great power, but just as an unchained torrent of water submerges whole countrysides and devastates crops, even so an uncontrolled pen serves but to destroy. If the control is from without, it proves more poisonous than want of control. It can be profitable only when exercised from within. If this line of reasoning is correct, how many of the journals in the world would stand the test? But who would stop those that are useless? And who should be the judge? The useful and the useless must, like good and evil generally, go on together, and man must make his choice. — Mahatma Gandhi

First They Gandhi Quotes By Cindy Vine

Gandhi once said, you are the change you want to see in the world. But I have to ask, how do you bring about the change in you? Because it stands to reason, first you have to change before you can change the world. Your beliefs have to change, because your beliefs influence your behavior and your daily interactions with others. Changing oneself is not easy. First, you have to admit that there are parts of you which need changing. Many of us do not want to admit that we are less than perfect, that we might have facets of our personality which needs change. Change is hard, so most of us give up before we start. But if things aren't right in our lives, we need to look at what part of us we can change to make it right. — Cindy Vine

First They Gandhi Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

Three-fourths of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world will disappear if we step into the shoes of our adversaries and understand their standpoint. — Mahatma Gandhi

First They Gandhi Quotes By Winston Churchill

Here Churchill repeats with approval a statement he had first made in January, 1930 "at a meeting at the Cannon Street Hotel." "Sooner or later you will have to crush Gandhi and the Indian Congress and all they stand for." — Winston Churchill

First They Gandhi Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

It is a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has bestowed upon us this great gift which is our hands. If the craze for machinery method continues, it is highly likely that a time will come when we shall be so incapacitated and weak that we shall begin to curse ourselves for having forgotten the use of the living machines given to us by God. — Mahatma Gandhi

First They Gandhi Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

We labour under a sort of superstition that the child has nothing to learn during the first five years of its life. On the contrary the fact is that the child never learns in after-life what it does in its first five years. — Mahatma Gandhi

First They Gandhi Quotes By Arun Manilal Gandhi

How can we extinguish a fire if we don't first cut off the fuel that ignites the inferno? — Arun Manilal Gandhi

First They Gandhi Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus the very right to live accrues to us only when we do the duty of citizenship of the world. From this one fundamental statement, perhaps it is easy enough to define the duties of Man and Woman and correlate every right to some corresponding duty to be first performed. Every other right can be shown to be a usurpation hardly worth fighting for. — Mahatma Gandhi

First They Gandhi Quotes By Indira Gandhi

Without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue. You have to have courage - courage of different kinds: first, intellectual courage, to sort out different values and make up your mind about which is the one which is right for you to follow. You have to have moral courage to stick up to that - no matter what comes in your way, no matter what the obstacle and the opposition is. — Indira Gandhi

First They Gandhi Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral. — Mahatma Gandhi

First They Gandhi Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

It is a first class human tragedy that people of the earth who claim to believe in the message of Jesus, whom they describe as the Prince of Peace, show little of that belief in actual practice. — Mahatma Gandhi

First They Gandhi Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

Seek ye first the Charkha and its concomitants and everything else will be added unto you. — Mahatma Gandhi

First They Gandhi Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

The first principal of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating. — Mahatma Gandhi

First They Gandhi Quotes By William R. Forstchen

She'd always talk about how great Gandhi was. I'd tell her the only reason Gandhi survived after his first protest was that he was dealing with the Brits. If Stalin had been running India, he'd of been dead in a second, his name forgotten. — William R. Forstchen

First They Gandhi Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life. — Mahatma Gandhi

First They Gandhi Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love. — Mahatma Gandhi

First They Gandhi Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. — Mahatma Gandhi

First They Gandhi Quotes By Aravind Adiga

I gather you yellow-skinned men, despite your triumphs in sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, still don't have democracy. Some politician on the radio was saying that that's why we Indian are going to beat you: we may not have sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, but we do have democracy.
If I were making a country, I'd get the sewage pipes first, then the democracy, then I'd go about giving pamphlets and statues of Gandhi to other people, but what do I know? I am just a murderer! — Aravind Adiga

First They Gandhi Quotes By Debasish Mridha

You deserve your love more than anyone else. First fill your vessel with love and then give it away with joy. — Debasish Mridha

First They Gandhi Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

I well remember how the thoughts I had up to the time of my discharge from the jail on every occasion were modified immediately after discharge, and after getting first-hand information myself. Somehow or other the jail atmosphere does not allow you to have all the bearings in your mind. — Mahatma Gandhi

First They Gandhi Quotes By Indira Gandhi

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away. — Indira Gandhi

First They Gandhi Quotes By Mourid Barghouti

It is easy to blur the truth with a simple linguistic trick: start your story from "Secondly." Yes, this is what Rabin did. He simply neglected to speak of what happened first. Start your story with "Secondly," and the world will be turned upside-down. Start your story with "Secondly," and the arrows of the Red Indians are the original criminals and the guns of the white men are entirely the victims. It is enough to start with "Secondly," for the anger of the black man against the white to be barbarous. Start with "Secondly," and Gandhi becomes responsible for the tragedies of the British. — Mourid Barghouti

First They Gandhi Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

No man could look upon another as his enemy, unless he first became his own enemy. — Mahatma Gandhi

First They Gandhi Quotes By Chelsea Ballinger

You know, I gave you the benefit of the doubt earlier when I first encountered you, the raging beast - oh I mean bitch. But now
I truly think that if greats who devoted themselves and achieved in some way at killing evil with kindness like Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Mandela, Mother Teresa, well I think if any of them met you... they truly would break that seal of devotion and beat the bloody shit out of you."
"I take that as a compliment."
"Oh, I know you do. — Chelsea Ballinger

First They Gandhi Quotes By B.R. Ambedkar

In 1931, when Ambedkar met Gandhi for the first time, Gandhi questioned him about his sharp criticism of the Congress (which, it was assumed, was tantamount to criticising the struggle for the Homeland). "Gandhiji, I have no Homeland," was Ambedkar's famous reply. "No Untouchable worth the name will be proud of this land."61 — B.R. Ambedkar

First They Gandhi Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts. — Mahatma Gandhi

First They Gandhi Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

Let our first act each morning be the following resolve: I shall not fear anyone on Earth. I shall fear only God. — Mahatma Gandhi

First They Gandhi Quotes By Steven Ivy Attorney Entrepreneur

Ask Gandhi, and eye for an eye makes us both blind ... ask an engineer, and the numbers don't lie - the first to strike wins. — Steven Ivy Attorney Entrepreneur

First They Gandhi Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage. — Mahatma Gandhi

First They Gandhi Quotes By Tony Hsieh

First, they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - GANDHI — Tony Hsieh

First They Gandhi Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

I am now of the opinion that children should first be taught the art of drawing before learning how to write. — Mahatma Gandhi

First They Gandhi Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind. — Mahatma Gandhi

First They Gandhi Quotes By Jeff Olson

Gandhi put it this way: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. — Jeff Olson

First They Gandhi Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock. — Mahatma Gandhi

First They Gandhi Quotes By Monique Coleman

Having traveled across America and to 24 counties as the first-ever UN Youth Champion, I'm inspired by the desire of young people everywhere to make the world a better place. At GimmeMo', our goal is to build a global community of enlightened young people - those who wish to be the change they wish to see in the world, to borrow a phrase from Gandhi - and to raise awareness surrounding some of the biggest challenges that Millennials face both in the U.S. and around the world. — Monique Coleman

First They Gandhi Quotes By Rex Ambler

I have found this myself, in my study of Hindu and Buddhist writing, especially of Gandhi. But I have also found it in the writings of the very first Friends, — Rex Ambler

First They Gandhi Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

Let us give today first the vital things of life and all the grace and ornaments of life will follow. — Mahatma Gandhi