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| Neutral Quotes are all neutral in nature. Meaning that they are neither very positive nor very negative. Usually the majority of all sayings are neutral. Them being Neutral has no connection to the actual value of the quote, so you may also find many interesting quotes here. |
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| 1 | Gandhi | I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others | 321 |
| 2 | Aristotle | Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead | 320 |
| 3 | Gandhi | Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies | 311 |
| 4 | Gandhi | One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman | 309 |
| 5 | Gandhi | The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted | 309 |
| 6 | Ingvar Kamprad | We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia | 309 |
| 7 | Gandhi | What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea | 308 |
| 8 | Karl Marx | When we consider and reflect upon nature at large or the history of mankind or our own intellectual activity, at first we see the picture of an endless entanglement of relations and reactions in which nothing remains what, where and as it was, but everything moves, changes, comes into being and passes away. This primitive, naive but intrinsically correct conception of the world is that of ancient Greek philosophy, and was first clearly formulated by Heraclitus: everything is and is not, for everything is fluid, is constantly changing, constantly coming into being and passing away | 308 |
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| 9 | Gandhi | Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality | 307 |
| 10 | Gandhi | Passive resistance is an all-sided sword; it blesses him who uses it and him against whom it is used | 307 |
| 11 | Karl Marx | The materialist conception of history starts from the proposition that the production of the means to support human life and, next to production, the exchange of things produced, is the basis of all social structure; that in every society that has appeared in history, the manner in which wealth is distributed and society divided into classes or orders is dependent upon what is produced, how it is produced, and how the products are exchanged. From this point of view, the final causes of all social changes and political revolutions are to be sought, not in men's brains, not in men's better insights into eternal truth and justice, but in changes in the modes of production and exchange | 307 |
| 12 | Barack Obama | Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement | 306 |
| 13 | Gandhi | The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within | 306 |
| 14 | Clint Eastwood | If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster | 305 |
| 15 | Gandhi | Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being | 305 |
| 16 | Gandhi | Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment | 305 |
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| 17 | Gandhi | What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? | 304 |
| 18 | Gandhi | Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms | 304 |
| 19 | Karl Marx | The mode of production of material life conditions the social, political and intellectual life process in general. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness | 303 |
| 20 | Gandhi | 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 | 302 |
| 21 | Gandhi | One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's maker and no one else's | 302 |
| 22 | Karl Marx | Nothing can have value without being an object of utility | 302 |
| 23 | Gandhi | My life is my message | 301 |
| 24 | Gandhi | The only way love punishes is by suffering | 301 |
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| 25 | Karl Marx | To save the Russian commune, a Russian revolution is needed | 301 |
| 26 | Gandhi | Increase of material comforts does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth | 300 |
| 27 | Gandhi | You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind | 300 |
| 28 | Karl Marx | Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation | 300 |
| 29 | Karl Marx | The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force | 300 |
| 30 | Barack Obama | We should be more modest in our belief that we can impose democracy on a country through military force. In the past, it has been movements for freedom from within tyrannical regimes that have led to flourishing democracies | 299 |
| 31 | Barack Obama | I honor - we honor - the service of John McCain, and I respect his many accomplishments, even if he chooses to deny mine | 299 |
| 32 | Barack Obama | But challenging as they are it's not the magnitude of our problems that concerns me the most, it is the smallness of our politics | 299 |
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| 33 | Homer Simpson | If he's so smart, how come he's dead? | 299 |
| 34 | Karl Marx | What is a Negro slave? A man of the black race. A Negro is a Negro. Only under certain conditions does he become a slave. A cotton-spinning machine is a machine for spinning cotton. Only under certain conditions does it become capital. Torn away from these conditions, it is as little capital as gold is itself money, or sugar is the price of sugar | 299 |
| 35 | Barack Obama | When we send our young men and women into harm's way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or shade the truth about why they're going, to care for their families while they're gone, to tend to the soldiers upon their return, and to never ever go to war without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace, and earn the respect of the world | 298 |
| 36 | Gandhi | A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave | 298 |
| 37 | Gandhi | It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business | 298 |
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| 38 | Gandhi | No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive | 298 |
| 39 | Karl Marx | The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society. Production by an isolated individual outside society is as much of an absurdity as is the development of language without individuals living together and talking to each other | 298 |
| 40 | Karl Marx | Theory also becomes a material force as soon as it has gripped the masses | 298 |
| 41 | Gandhi | True discipline gives enthusiastic obedience to instructions even though they do not satisfy the reason | 297 |
| 42 | Karl Marx | We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass | 297 |
| 43 | Homer Simpson | Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! | 296 |
| 44 | Karl Marx | Democracy is the road to socialism | 296 |
| 45 | Karl Marx | What is Communism? Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. What is the proletariat? The proletariat is that class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its labor and does not draw profit from any kind of capital; whose weal and woe, whose life and death, whose sole existence depends on the demand for labor | 296 |
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| 46 | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women | 295 |
| 47 | Bruce Lee | The happiness that is derived from excitement is like a brilliant fire - soon it will go out. Before we married, we never had the chance to go out to nightclubs. We only spent our nights watching TV and chatting. Many young couples live a very exciting life when they are in love. So, when they marry, and their lives are reduced to calmness and dullness, they will feel impatient and will drink the bitter cup of a sad marriage | 295 |
| 48 | Gandhi | Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort | 295 |
| 49 | Karl Marx | Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time | 295 |
| 50 | Karl Marx | In a higher phase of communist society, only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. | 295 |
| 51 | Karl Marx | Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity | 295 |
| 52 | Aaliyah | I'm a total performer | 294 |
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| 53 | Aristotle | As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers | 294 |
| 54 | Barack Obama | I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics | 294 |
| 55 | Barack Obama | Couldn't find anyone out of the 12 million people in Illinois to run against me | 294 |
| 56 | Bruce Lee | Taoist philosophy is essentially monistic. Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole | 294 |
| 57 | Claude Debussy | Music is the silence between the notes | 294 |
| 58 | Clint Eastwood | I like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. Even as a kid, I was annoyed by people who wanted to tell everyone how to live | 294 |
| 59 | Gandhi | I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul | 294 |
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| 60 | Gandhi | Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit | 294 |
| 61 | Gandhi | Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be | 294 |
| 62 | Gandhi | Real noncooperation is noncooperation with evil and not with the evil doer | 294 |
| 63 | Barack Obama | You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig | 293 |
| 64 | Clint Eastwood | I like to direct the same way that I like to be directed | 293 |
| 65 | Gandhi | There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread | 293 |
| 66 | Karl Marx | The idea that political acts, grand performances of state, are decisive in history is as old as written history itself, and is the main reason why so little material has been preserved for us in regard to the really progressive evolution of the peoples which has taken place quietly, in the background, behind these noisy scenes on the stage | 293 |
| 67 | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer | 292 |
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| 68 | Bruce Lee | Your best move is the move you regret not doing | 292 |
| 69 | Gandhi | I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers | 292 |
| 70 | Gandhi | Nonviolent noncooperation with evil means cooperation with all that is good | 292 |
| 71 | Gandhi | The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience | 292 |
| 72 | Barack Obama | If I sit down with the leader of Iran, I will send him a strong message that Israel is our friend, that we will assist in their security and that we don't find nuclear weapons acceptable. That's not going to be a propaganda coup for the president of Iran | 291 |
| 73 | Boris Becker | I don't really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I'm not going to start now | 291 |
| 74 | Deepak Chopra | Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based | 291 |
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| 75 | Gandhi | Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation | 291 |
| 76 | Gandhi | The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice | 291 |
| 77 | Karl Marx | The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles | 291 |
| 78 | Karl Marx | What is genuine is proved in the fire, what is false we shall not miss in our ranks. The opponents must grant us that youth has never before flocked to our colours in such numbers. In the end, one will be found among us who will prove that the sword of enthusiasm is just as good as the sword of genius | 291 |
| 79 | Aristotle | The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet | 290 |
| 80 | Aristotle | The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain | 290 |
| 81 | Barack Obama | The men and women who serve in our battlefields may be Democrats and Republicans and independents, but they have fought together and bled together and some died together under the same proud flag. They have not served a red America or a blue America - they have served the United States of America | 290 |
| 82 | Claude Debussy | Art is the most beautiful of all lies | 290 |
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| 83 | Karl Marx | All economists share the error of examining surplus-value not as such, in its pure form, but in the particular forms of profit and rent | 290 |
| 84 | Karl Marx | Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past | 290 |
| 85 | Eminem | The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed | 289 |
| 86 | Gandhi | Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness | 289 |
| 87 | Gandhi | Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive | 289 |
| 88 | Karl Marx | Under the freedom of trade the whole severity of the laws of political economy will be applied to the working classes. Is that to say that we are against Free Trade? No, we are for Free Trade, because by Free Trade all economical laws, with their most astounding contradictions, will act upon a larger scale, upon a greater extent of territory, upon the territory of the whole earth; and because from the uniting of all these contradictions into a single group, where they stand face to face, will result the struggle which will itself eventuate in the emancipation of the proletarians | 289 |
| 89 | Karl Marx | Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases | 289 |
| 90 | Barack Obama | We're not going to baby sit a civil war | 288 |
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| 91 | Barack Obama | We are the party of Roosevelt. We are the party of Kennedy. So don't tell me that Democrats won't defend this country. Don't tell me that Democrats won't keep us safe | 288 |
| 92 | Gandhi | Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible | 288 |
| 93 | Gandhi | That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake | 288 |
| 94 | Karl Marx | Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form | 288 |
| 95 | Karl Marx | The bureaucrat has the world as a mere object of his action | 288 |
| 96 | Karl Marx | The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as an immense accumulation of commodities, its unit being a single commodity. Our investigation must therefore begin with the analysis of a commodity | 288 |
| 97 | Arnold Schwarzenegger | And it was a sad story when my father died. Because my mother called me on the phone and she said, "You know, your dad died" And this was exactly two months before a contest. "Are you coming home for the funeral?" She said. I said: "No. It's too late. He's dead and nothing can be done. I'm sorry I can't come." And I didn't explain the reasons why, because how do you explain to a mother whose husband died, you just can't be bothered now because of a contest? | 287 |
| 98 | Barack Obama | For part of what has been lost these past eight years can't just be measured by lost wages or bigger trade deficits. What has also been lost is our sense of common purpose, our sense of higher purpose. And that's what we have to restore | 287 |
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| 99 | Claude Debussy | Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light | 287 |
| 100 | Karl Marx | Neither of us cares a straw for popularity. Let me cite one proof of this: such was my aversion to the personality cult that at the time of the International, when plagued by numerous moves – originating from various countries – to accord me public honour, I never allowed one of these to enter the domain of publicity, nor did I ever reply to them, save with an occasional snub. When Engels and I first joined the secret communist society, we did so only on condition that anything conducive to a superstitious belief in authority be eliminated from the Rules | 287 |
| 101 | Karl Marx | Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex | 287 |
| 102 | Barack Obama | I don't understand how you could have a situation where you've got several days notice of an enormous hurricane building in the Gulf Coast, you know that New Orleans is 6 feet below sea level. The notion that you don't have good plans in place just does not make sense | 286 |
| 103 | Bruce Lee | When, in a split second, your life is threatened, do you say, "let me make sure my hand is on my hip, and my style is "the" style?" When your life is in danger, do you argue about the method you will adhere to while saving yourself? Why the duality? | 286 |
| 104 | Gandhi | Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding | 286 |
| 105 | Gandhi | Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into | 286 |
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| 106 | Gandhi | Jesus Christ, Daniel and Socrates represented the purest form of passive resistance or soul force | 286 |
| 107 | Ingvar Kamprad | Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels | 286 |
| 108 | Ingvar Kamprad | Now I have told all I can. Can one ever get forgiveness for such stupidity? | 286 |
| 109 | Ingvar Kamprad | There are few people who have made so many fiascos in life as I have | 286 |
| 110 | Gandhi | Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart | 285 |
| 111 | Gandhi | Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err | 285 |
| 112 | Gandhi | Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature | 285 |
| 113 | Gandhi | To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions | 285 |
| 114 | Aristotle | Every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite | 284 |
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| 115 | Eminem | Holy Gigantical Completely Natural Bulges! | 284 |
| 116 | Gandhi | The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different | 284 |
| 117 | Alanis Morissette | I think some fans want everything to stay the same because they want to stay the same | 283 |
| 118 | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Nixon was always being attacked sexually. It was always said that he was a fag and that he had no sexual relations with his wife for 15 years and that was why he liked power. And Hitler had only one ball, and that was why he wanted to conquer the world | 283 |
| 119 | Bruce Lee | Turn into a doll made of wood: it has no ego, it thinks nothing, it is not grasping or sticky. Let the body and limbs work theselves out in accordance with the discipline they have undergone | 283 |
| 120 | Gandhi | An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind | 283 |
| 121 | Gandhi | The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated | 283 |
| 122 | Gandhi | The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation | 283 |
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| 123 | Karl Marx | Just as the savage must wrestle with Nature to satisfy his wants, to maintain and reproduce life, so must civilised man, and he must do so in all social formations and under all possible modes of production. With his development this realm of physical necessity expands as a result of his wants; but, at the same time, the forces of production which satisfy these wants also increase. Freedom in this field can only consist in socialised man, the associated producers, rationally regulating their interchange with Nature, bringing it under their common control, instead of being ruled by it as by the blind forces of Nature; and achieving this with the least expenditure of energy and under conditions most favourable to, and worthy of, their human nature. But it nonetheless still remains a realm of necessity. Beyond it begins that development of human energy which is an end in itself, the true realm of freedom, which, however, can blossom forth only with this realm of necessity as its basis. The shortening of the working-day is its basic prerequisite | 283 |
| 124 | Arnold Schwarzenegger | It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat | 282 |
| 125 | Barack Obama | If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost | 282 |
| 126 | Bruce Lee | Art "lives" where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the "self" vanishing nowhere, the art of JKD attains its perfection | 282 |
| 127 | Clint Eastwood | Plastic surgery used to be a thing where older people would try to go into this dream world of being 28 years old again. But now, in Hollywood, even people at 28 are having work done. Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life. But I figure I might as well just be what I am | 282 |
| 128 | Gandhi | Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts | 282 |
| 129 | Gandhi | Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is | 282 |
| 130 | Karl Marx | History is the judge - its executioner, the proletarian | 282 |
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| 131 | Karl Marx | The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism | 282 |
| 132 | Karl Marx | The representation of private interests abolishes all natural and spiritual distinctions by enthroning in their stead the immoral, irrational and soulless abstraction of a particular material object and a particular consciousness which is slavishly subordinated to this object | 282 |
| 133 | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Hasta la vista, baby | 281 |
| 134 | Gandhi | Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith | 281 |
| 135 | Aristotle | In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech | 280 |
| 136 | Barack Obama | The country is not as polarized as our politics would suggest | 280 |
| 137 | Barack Obama | I've known Reverend Wright for almost twenty years. The person I saw yesterday was not the person that I met twenty years ago. His comments were not only divisive and destructive, but I believe that they end up giving comfort to those who prey on hate and I believe that they do not portray accurately the perspective of the black church. They certainly don’t portray accurately my values and beliefs and if Reverend Wright thinks that's political posturing, as he put it, then he doesn't know me very well and based on his remarks yesterday, well I may not know him as well as I thought either | 280 |
| 138 | Clint Eastwood | They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning | 280 |
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| 139 | Deepak Chopra | When the human organism is discharging its negative experience efficiently, the mind is empty of past or future concerns; there is no worry, anticipation, or regret. This means that the mind is left open to Being, the simplest state of awareness | 280 |
| 140 | Gandhi | I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust | 280 |
| 141 | Karl Marx | Labour is not the only source of material wealth, ie of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, labour is the father of material wealth, the earth is its mother | 280 |
| 142 | Karl Marx | Revolutions are the locomotives of history | 280 |
| 143 | Barack Obama | I'm not denouncing the church, and I'm not interested in people who want me to denounce the church. It's not a church worthy of denouncing | 279 |
| 144 | Gandhi | Whatever may be true of other modes of warfare, in satyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within | 279 |
| 145 | Karl Marx | The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class | 279 |
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| 146 | Aristotle | There are three classes of men - lovers of wisdom, lovers of honour, lovers of gain | 278 |
| 147 | Eminem | A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious | 278 |
| 148 | Eminem | I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am | 278 |
| 149 | Faith Hill | I'm not out there enough to be scrutinized. But when I am, it's hurtful. You just kind of have to blow it off | 278 |
| 150 | Gandhi | A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes | 278 |
| 151 | Gandhi | Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help | 278 |
| 152 | Gandhi | Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy | 278 |
| 153 | Gandhi | My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity | 278 |
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| 154 | Karl Marx | According to the materialist conception of history, the ultimately determining element in history is the production and reproduction of real life | 278 |
| 155 | Karl Marx | We develop new principles for the world out of the world's own principles. We do not say to the world: Cease your struggles, they are foolish; we will give you the true slogan of struggle. We merely show the world what it is really fighting for, and consciousness is something that it has to acquire, even if it does not want to | 278 |
| 156 | Bruce Lee | To reach the masses, some sort of big organization, domestic and foreign branch affiliation, is not necessary. To reach the growing number of students, some sort of pre-conformed set must be established as standards for the branch to follow. As a result all members will be conditioned according to the prescribed system. Many will probably end up as a prisoner of a systematized drill | 277 |
| 157 | Gandhi | An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so | 277 |
| 158 | Gandhi | I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following | 277 |
| 159 | Gandhi | Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth | 277 |
| 160 | Gandhi | Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action | 277 |
| 161 | Homer Simpson | Are you saying you're never going to eat any animal again? What about bacon? | 277 |
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| 162 | Barack Obama | It's not because John McCain doesn't care. It's because John McCain doesn't get it | 276 |
| 163 | Barack Obama | And now is the time to keep the promise of equal pay for an equal day's work, because I want my daughters to have exactly the same opportunities as your sons | 276 |
| 164 | Bruce Lee | What is, is more important than what should be. Too many people are looking at "what is" from a position of thinking "what should be." | 276 |
| 165 | Arnold Schwarzenegger | I admire America because it is a powerful country. I admire its economic system, its freedom and its money. It is a rich country. Its people are open-minded. But I didn't understand all of this when I was ten years old. There was something else. A subconscious drive to come here. When I came here, I had come from Munich where I had been training. I gave myself no choice. I almost made myself thrown out. I got in trouble with the police. Little troubles. I created a situation that forced me to leave. Somebody told me - Split. Now you have to go to America | 275 |
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| 166 | Bruce Lee | We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed | 275 |
167 |
Gandhi | It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh | 275 |
| 168 | Homer Simpson | The problem in the world today is communication. Too much communication | 275 |
| 169 | Karl Marx | It is generally the fate of completely new historical creations to be mistaken for the counterparts of older, and even defunct, forms of social life, to which they may bear a certain likeness | 275 |
| 170 | Karl Marx | Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source - next to nature, which supplies it with the material that it converts into wealth. But it is even infinitely more than this. It is the prime basic condition for all human existence, and this to such an extent that, in a sense, we have to say that labour created man himself | 275 |
| 171 | Karl Marx | The productive forces are the result of man's practical energy, but that energy is in turn circumscribed by the conditions in which man is placed by the productive forces already acquired, by the form of society which exists before him, which he does not create, which is the product of the preceding generation | 275 |
| 172 | Aristotle | We must as second best take the least of the evils | 274 |
| 173 | Barack Obama | I've been called worse on the basketball court | 274 |
| 174 | Bruce Lee | Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick | 274 |
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| 175 | David Beckham | Nothing amazes me anymore | 274 |
| 176 | Gandhi | Disobedience to be civil implies discipline, thought, care, attention | 274 |
| 177 | Gandhi | I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world | 274 |
| 178 | Gandhi | Love thy neighbor as thyself is no counsel of perfection. The capitalist is as much a neighbor of the laborer as the latter is a neighbor of the former, and one has to seek and win the willing co- operation of the other. Nor does the principle mean that we should accept exploitation lying down. Our internal strength will render all exploitation impossible | 274 |
| 179 | Gandhi | Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul | 274 |
| 180 | Gandhi | The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit | 274 |
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