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Date of Birth:
October 2, 1869
Date of Death:
January 13, 1948
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Mahatma Gandhi
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A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
Mohandas Gandhi
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Mohandas Gandhi
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
Mohandas Gandhi
A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
Mohandas Gandhi
A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
Mohandas Gandhi
A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
Mohandas Gandhi
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.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
Mohandas Gandhi
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
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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.
Mohandas Gandhi
A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
Mohandas Gandhi
Action expresses priorities.
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Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
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All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
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All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
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Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Mohandas Gandhi
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
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An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
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An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
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An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
Mohandas Gandhi
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mohandas Gandhi
Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
Mohandas Gandhi
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
Mohandas Gandhi
Be the change that you want to see in the world.
Mohandas Gandhi
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
Mohandas Gandhi
But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
Mohandas Gandhi
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
Mohandas Gandhi
Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
Mohandas Gandhi
Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
Mohandas Gandhi
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
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Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
Mohandas Gandhi
Each one prays to God according to his own light.
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Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Mohandas Gandhi
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
Mohandas Gandhi
Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
Mohandas Gandhi
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
Mohandas Gandhi
Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
Mohandas Gandhi
Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
Mohandas Gandhi
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
Mohandas Gandhi
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Mohandas Gandhi
For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
Mohandas Gandhi
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
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Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
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Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.
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God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
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God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.
Mohandas Gandhi
God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.
Mohandas Gandhi
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mohandas Gandhi
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
Mohandas Gandhi
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
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I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
Mohandas Gandhi
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
Mohandas Gandhi
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