Famous quotes by Leaders

"A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"A man is but the product of his thoughts, What he thinks, he becomes"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

"When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

"To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

"It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

"If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

"If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

"Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

"The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

"Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

"You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"I was France"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"We are not here to laugh"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"No nation has friends, only interests"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive, or else a strategy is useless"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"One cannot govern with 'buts'"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

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