Showing posts with label human quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label human quotes. Show all posts

Friday, January 8, 2010

Gandhi's quotes on untouchability

"God never made man that he may consider another man as an untouchable."



"My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity."


"To say that a single human being, because of his birth, becomes an untouchable, unapproachable, or invisible, is to deny God."


"Anger, lust and such other evil passions ranging in the heart are the real untouchables."






Also read:

- Famous quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
- Quotes on Gandhi by other famous people

Monday, October 26, 2009

Famous quotes by Charlie Chaplin

Few of famous quotes from the famous English comedic actor and film director Charlie Chaplin

"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot"

"The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury."

"We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery."

"We think too much and feel too little."

"A day without laughter is a day wasted."

"A man's true character comes out when he's drunk."

"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."

"Why should poetry have to make sense?"

"Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'."

"Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing."

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Aung San Suu Kyi Famous Quotes

Few famous quotes by Aung San Suu Kyi , leader of the nonviolent movement for human rights and democracy in Burma (Myanmar), and Nobel laureate.

"Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential."

"The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence."

"Fear is not the natural state of civilized people."

"Our struggle for democracy is a struggle for our everyday life."

"As my father's daughter, I felt I had a duty to get involved."

"The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged."

"The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development."

"I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians."

"The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear."

"It is not power that corrupts but fear. The fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it, and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it."

Monday, September 28, 2009

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Famous old age quotes and sayings























"None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm."
~ Henry David Thoreau

"Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese."
~ Billie Burke

"There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow."
~ Edith Wharton

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
~ Abraham Lincoln

"It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!"
~ Alice James

"I want to die young at a ripe old age."
~ Ashley Montagu

"The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy."
~ Helen Hayes

"Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age."
~ Jeanne Moreau

"First you are young; then you are middle-aged; then you are old; then you are wonderful."
~ Lady Diana Cooper

"You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old"
~ George Burns
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