Untouchables Quotes

• Ninety-nine per cent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Positivity, Ninety Nine, Soul

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• You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I'd rather have won the U.S. Open Golf Tournament.

  Sean Connery

  Golf, Oscars, Honest

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• [Mahatma Gandhi] said that the first president of India ought to be a harijan girl, an untouchable. He was so against the class system and the oppression of women that an untouchable woman became for him the epitome of purity and benediction.

  Indira Gandhi

  Girl, Class System, President

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• There is nothing sacred or untouchable except the freedom to think. Without criticism, that is to say, without rigor and experimentation, there is no science, without criticism there is no art or literature. I would also say that without criticism there is no healthy society.

  Octavio Paz

  Art, Thinking, Healthy

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• Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Long, Doe

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• It really lasted the whole game, because I was really untouchable, unstoppable that game. But it was heightened on one particular play, and that was the longest run where everything completely slowed down. My awareness was so keen, it was so heightened, it was really amazing.

  Marcus Allen

  Sports, Running, Games

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• Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Easter, Support, West

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• You cannot live when you are untouchable. Life is vulnerability.

  Edouard Boubat

  Life Is, Vulnerability

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• The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Purification, Untouchability, Castes

  Mahatma Gandhi (1964). “Caste Must Go and the Sin of Untouchability”

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• I want to be untouchable and beautiful and completely dead inside.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Beautiful, Want

  Francesca Lia Block (2008). “Beautiful Boys: Missing Angel Juan and Baby Be-Bop”, p.203, Zondervan

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• Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want.

  Eliot Ness

  Race, Law, Doubt

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• I learned that I could control my life. You are the master of your fate. . . you are the captain of your soul. I took control and went to my space. . . My space. . . the universal energy. . . I tapped into that space of divine flow, where all beings, all things are connected. That space is real. You cannot have a meaningful life without having spiritual self-reflection. Know who you are and why you are here. When you tap into that space, divine flow, that universal energy, you become untouchable in what you are called to do.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Real

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• At the end of the day you gotta feel some way. So why not feel unbeatable? Why not feel untouchable.

  Conor McGregor

  Mma, The End Of The Day, Why Not

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• Not only are animals unable to avail themselves of language to assert their own rights, but many fewer humans have a clear sense of kinship with animals than have a clear sense of kinship with other humans. Among beings with subjective states of awareness, animals are the untouchable caste, those whom human others would rather not acknowledge, let alone render assistance.

  Gary Steiner

  Animal, Rights, Language

  Gary Steiner (2012). “Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship”, p.138, Columbia University Press

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• It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Community, Sin, Crime

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• God, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one - fifth of our vast population as untouchables.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Practice, Justice

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

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• We live through myriads of seconds, yet it is always one, just one, that casts our entire inner world into turmoil, the second when (as Stendhal has described it) the internal inflorescence, already steeped in every kind of fluid, condenses and crystallizes—a magical second, like the moment of generation, and like that moment concealed in the warm interior of the individual life, invisible, untouchable, beyond the reach of feeling, a secret experienced alone. No algebra of the mind can calculate it, no alchemy of premonition divine it, and it can seldom perceive itself.

  Stefan Zweig

  Feelings, Secret, Mind

  Stefan Zweig (2015). “The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig: Burning Secret, A Chess Story, Fear, Confusion, Journey into the Past”, p.144, Pushkin Press

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• I know I've got a death wish. I've never enjoyed my life, I've never liked people. I love the mountains because they are the negation of life, indestructible, inhuman, untouchable, indifferent, as I want to be.

  Anna Kavan

  People, Wish, Mountain

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• Some things that are invisible and untouchable can nevertheless be seen and felt.

  Michael Chabon

  Invisible, Nevertheless, Felt

  Michael Chabon (2013). “Summerland”, p.24, HarperCollins UK

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• When you put a halo on concepts - gender roles, religion, nationality or pride - or you put a halo on any topic - anything that you hold dear like the relationship between a father and son or a mother and daughter, what it means to be married or what it means to be single or what it means to be a free spirit or what it means to be an artist - if you just put a halo on something and say it's untouchable - "that is special and that is perfect" - you immediately close your eyes to the truth of it, because the truth is that nothing is perfect.

  Dan Mangan

  Daughter, Mother, Father

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• All the unimaginative assholes in the world who imagine that Shakespeare couldn't have written Shakespeare because it was impossible from what we know about Shakespeare of Stratford that such a man would have had the experience to imagine such things - well, this denies the very thing that separates Shakespeare from almost every other writer in the world: an imagination that is untouchable and nonstop.

  John Irving

  Men, Imagination, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.

  David Mamet

  Law, Chicago, Tides

  "Fictional character: Jim Malone". "The Untouchables", www.imdb.com. June 2, 1987.

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• It took my breath away, that evening. If you've ever dreamed that you walked into your best-loved book or film or TV program, then maybe you've got some idea how it felt: things coming alive around you, strange and new and utterly familiar at the same time; the catch in your heartbeat as you move through the rooms that had such a vivid untouchable life in your mind, as your feet actually touch the carpet, as you breathe the air; the odd, secret glow of warmth as these people you've been watching for so long, from so far away, open their circle and sweep you into it.

  Tana French

  Moving, Book, Feet

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• So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their prohibitions, their refusal to allow the universe to move — all seemed to him now merely ridiculous, non-existent, compared with the majestic reality, the flood of energy, which now revealed itself to him: omnipresent, unalterable in its truth, relentless in its development, untouchable in its serenity, maternal and unfailing in its protectiveness.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Moving, Reality, Serenity

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• I could easily blast so much keef night and day I become a bouhali; a real-gone crazy, a holy untouchable madman unto whom everything is permitted, nothing is true.

  Brion Gysin

  Crazy, Real, Night

  Brion Gysin (2005). “The Process”, p.77, The Overlook Press

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