Empires Quote by Ogden Nash Download Open image “Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi; Consider the Empire and Gandhi.” — Ogden Nash ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Empires Modus operandi Passivity Provoking
“Gandhi’s passivity was not weakness at all. It meant focusing on an ultimate goal and refusing to divert energy to unnecessary skirmishes along the… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Gandhi saw how people have to re-think their own individuality before engaging in political activity. Otherwise they're just playing the game that the adversary… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“Gandhi, the greatest political genius of our time, has pointed the way. He was shown of what sacrifices people are capable once they have… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
...I believe, with Gandhi, that we need to take an imaginative leap forward toward fresh and generous idealism for the sake of all humanity… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
From my Christian formation've gotten my ideals and technique Gandhi action — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Jawaharlal Nehru, who wrote in a 1936 letter to an Englishman, Lord Lothian, that British rule is ‘based on an extreme form of widespread… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the overwhelming moral force exerted by leaders like Gandhi comes by too rarely in the life of a nation. — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India. — Arthur L. Herman Copy Share Image
Not everyone can be Gandhi, but each of us has the power to make sure our own lives count - and it's those millions… — Jeffrey Skoll Copy Share Image
There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
The sky is now indelible ink, The branches reft asunder; But you and I we do not shrink; We love the lovely thunder. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
“Love is a word that is constantly heard, Hate is a word that is not. Love, I am told, is more precious that gold.… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
“Senescence begins And middle-age ends The day your descendants Outnumber your friends” — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, but I do think that they damn… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
To maintain your marriage brimming, with really like in the wedding cup, anytime you are incorrect, admit it each time you're proper, shut up. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire… — Paul von Hindenburg Copy Share Image
Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction. — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But Jesus' disciples… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen, and who… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
The reality is that our military presence on foreign soil is as offensive to the people that live there as armed Chinese troops would… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
It is the soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities and decisions, that have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in… — Wilhelm II Copy Share Image
[Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you should be… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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