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  • The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether different from those which he prescribes for himself. Allow ALL the governed an equal voice in the government, and that, and that only, is self-government.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Government Quotes , Self Quotes
  • It is raining and you can hear the pattern of the drops. You can hear it with your ears, or you can hear it out of that deep silence. If you hear it with complete silence of the mind, then the beauty of it is such that cannot be put into words or onto canvas, because that beauty is something beyond self-expression .
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Rain Quotes , Self Quotes
  • Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non­resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self­suffering.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Self Quotes , Evil Quotes
  • In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For, what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but one's own self.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Mean Quotes , Self Quotes
  • To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once you begin to read, you must read every word, every sentence, every paragraph for in them are the intimations of the whole. The beginning of it is the ending of it. If you know how to read, supreme wisdom is to be found.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Book Quotes , Self Quotes