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Quotes by Leader

"Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse."

"Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position."

"I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere."
Home,

"All sports must be treated on the basis of equality."

"The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background."

"Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves."

"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will."

"It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr."

"It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal."

"To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity."

"Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance."

"This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification in the hearts of the millions who are its members and the millions more who support it."

"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."

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

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

"All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word."

"I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other."

"The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility."

"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."

"He who can not support himself, can not take his own decision."

"I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro."

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

"Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone."

"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory."

"Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage."

"Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides."
Road,

"Rather than walk about holy places we can thus pause in our thoughts, examine our heart, and visit the wheel promised land."

"Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think."

"A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron."

"The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia."

"Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn."
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