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Quotes by Leader

"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet."

"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."


"A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution."

"It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore."
Want,

"Whenever we come across 'Viklang' person, our attention goes towards their disability but we do not notice the immense capabilities and strength they have to accomplish a task. And, that is why I urge everyone to use the word 'Divyang' instead of 'Viklang'."

"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people."

"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent."

"Love is not only pure joy, and delight, but also great and deep heaviness of heart and sorrow. But love too is full of joy and sweetness even in bitter sorrow, because it regards the misery and injury of others as its own. So also Christ was glowing with burning love in His last and greatest agony. According to St. Hilary, it was Christ's greatest joy that He endured the greatest woe. Thus God "giveth strength and power unto His people" (Ps. 68:15). While they experience the greatest sorrow, their hearts overflow with joy."


"Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed."

"I more fear what is within me than what comes from without."

"A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing."

"Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either."

"Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see."

"Christian life consists in faith and charity."

"The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species.Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?"

"It is neither right nor safe to go against my conscience."

"Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person."

"The satyagrahi enters the jail cell as the bridegroom enters the bridal chamber."

"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."

"If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty."


"Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not."
Risk,

"The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do."

"The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes."

"Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up."


"There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side."

"Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short."

"The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included."
Mind,


"The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less."

"We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools."


"It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed."

"Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it."

"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left."
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