Quotes by Gandhi, Mahatma

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS."

Gandhi, Mahatma on despair
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"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within."

Gandhi, Mahatma on dictators and dictatorship
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"Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up."

Gandhi, Mahatma on evil
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"Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies."

Gandhi, Mahatma on faith
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"Non-violence is the article of faith."

Gandhi, Mahatma on faith
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"Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into."

Gandhi, Mahatma on faith
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"I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith."

Gandhi, Mahatma on faith
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"God comes to the hungry in the form of food."

Gandhi, Mahatma on food and eating
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

Gandhi, Mahatma on forgiveness
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"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right."

Gandhi, Mahatma on freedom
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"The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states."

Gandhi, Mahatma on freedom
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"The good man is the friend of all living things."

Gandhi, Mahatma on friends and friendship
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"It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business."

Gandhi, Mahatma on friends and friendship
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"The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God."

Gandhi, Mahatma on god
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"Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good."

Gandhi, Mahatma on evil
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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

Gandhi, Mahatma on happiness
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"Hatred can be overcome only by love."

Gandhi, Mahatma on hatred
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"To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man."

Gandhi, Mahatma on history and historians
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"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

Gandhi, Mahatma on humankind
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"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."

Gandhi, Mahatma on humankind
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"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."

Gandhi, Mahatma on humor
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"Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible."

Gandhi, Mahatma on idleness
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"Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame."

Gandhi, Mahatma on indolence
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"I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul."

Gandhi, Mahatma on inheritance
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"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."

Gandhi, Mahatma on jesus christ
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"An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so."

Gandhi, Mahatma on law and lawyers
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"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people."

Gandhi, Mahatma on leadership
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"There is more to life than simply increasing its speed."

Gandhi, Mahatma on life
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"Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding."

Gandhi, Mahatma on anger
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"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."

Gandhi, Mahatma on love
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"My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind."

Gandhi, Mahatma on love
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"Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love."

Gandhi, Mahatma on love
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"Where there is love there is life."

Gandhi, Mahatma on love
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"I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage."

Gandhi, Mahatma on marriage
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"Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth."

Gandhi, Mahatma on materialism
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"Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be inseparable part of our very being."

Gandhi, Mahatma on nonviolence
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"Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving."

Gandhi, Mahatma on occupation
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"Patience means self-suffering."

Gandhi, Mahatma on patience
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"Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know."

Gandhi, Mahatma on peace
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"A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal."

Gandhi, Mahatma on policy
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