“You don't prove a point with nationalists; you cannot make nationalists happy.”
2010s, Interview with Chad O'Carroll (2012)
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American professor of international studies 1963Related quotes
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“You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.”
Variant: You can never get enough of what you don’t really need.
Resolutions and Declarations (1970)
To Die For The People
In private this was sometimes cynically admitted. The attitude of the Indian millionaires was similar. Gandhi called upon them to repent, and naturally they preferred him to the Socialists and Communists who, given the chance, would actually have taken their money away. How reliable such calculations are in the long run is doubtful; as Gandhi himself says, "in the end deceivers deceive only themselves"; but at any rate the gentleness with which he was nearly always handled was due partly to the feeling that he was useful.
Reflections on Gandhi (1949)