"The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.
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“Unity among the different races and the different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life.”
“Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.”
“It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”
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“Napoleon is always right.”
“In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.”
“There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us.”
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“Well, there's a lot to react against![in response to the accusation that she was a reactionary]”
“No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.”
“The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an object of vision, or an effluvium which assails our nose, no sooner enters our consciousness than it is drafted off in some determinate direction or other, making connection with the other materials already there, and finally producing what we call our reaction. The particular connections it strikes into are determined by our past experiences and the 'associations' of the present sort of impression with them.”