A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion. – Mahatma Gandhi
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself. – Mahatma Gandhi
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh. – Mahatma Gandhi
Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having. – Mahatma Gandhi
Linguists are no different from any other people who spend more than nineteen hours a day pondering the complexities of grammar and its relationship to practically everything else in order to prove that language is so inordinately complicated that it is impossible in principle for people to talk. – Ronald W. Langacker (b.1942), Language and Its Structure, 1973