"Man cannot breathe with borrowed lungs...." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
Man cannot breathe with borrowed lungs.
More by Mahatma Gandhi
“Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it.”
“Life is greater than all art.”
“Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.”
More on Independence
“If I supply you with a thought, you may remember it and you may not. But if I can make you think a thought for yourself, I have indeed added to your stature.”
“I'm not in show business because I don't have to go to the meetings, I'm just not a part of it, I don't belong to it. When you "belong" to something. You want to think about that word, "belong." People should think about that: it means they own you. If you belong to something it owns you, and I just don't care for that. I like spinning out here like one of those subatomic particles that they can't quite pin down.”
“Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.”
More on Self Reliance
“The efforts of governments alone will never be enough. In the end, the people must choose and the people must help themselves.”
“We stand for self-reliance. We hope for foreign aid but cannot be dependent on it; we depend on our own efforts, on the creative power of the whole army and the entire people.”
“Do what you know you ought to do. Why should we ever go abroad, even across the way, to ask a neighbor's advice? There is a nearerneighbor within us incessantly telling us how we should behave. But we wait for the neighbor without to tell us of some false, easier way.”