
“Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.”
Source: Persons and Places (1944), p. 61
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.”
Source: Persons and Places (1944), p. 61
“There is no greater force for change than people inspired to live a better life.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 32
Section 93
The True Believer (1951), Part Three: United Action and Self-Sacrifice
Context: People whose lives are barren and insecure seem to show a greater willingness to obey than people who are self-sufficient and self-confident. To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief of the burdens of willing, deciding and being responsible for inevitable failure. They willingly abdicate the directing of their lives to those who want to plan, command and shoulder all responsibility.
Speech at Meeting of London Vegetarian Society (20 November 1931), in The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (New Delhi: Publications Division Government of India, 1999 electronic edition), Volume 54 http://www.gandhiashramsevagram.org/gandhi-literature/mahatma-gandhi-collected-works-volume-54.pdf, p. 189.
1930s
in Spain
As quoted in Bernard Lewis, Race and Color in Islam, Harper and Row, 1970, quote on page 38. The brackets are displayed by Lewis.
“The fate of animals is of far greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous.”
Source: How to Become President (1940), Ch. 5 : Issues and how to pick them
Context: Today millions of people are living who will never do it again. Millions are being born for the first time–and millions are doing nothing because it’s the best offer they’ve had this week. … It is for these people and many others that the Surprise Party is conceived and desecrated, founded upon the principle that everybody is just as good as anybody else, even though they aren’t quite so smart.