Quotes by Gandhi, Mahatma




Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (October 2, 1869 - January 30, 1948) was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer and perfector of Satyagraha - resistance through mass civil disobedience strongly founded upon ahimsa (total non-violence). Gandhi is commonly known and addressed in India and across the world as Mahatma Gandhi (from Sanskrit, Mahatma: Great Soul) and as Bapu (in many Indian languages, Father)..

"There is no god higher than truth."

Gandhi, Mahatma on truth
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"Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected."

Gandhi, Mahatma on truth
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"Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking."

Gandhi, Mahatma on unity
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"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."

Gandhi, Mahatma on violence
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"I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could."

Gandhi, Mahatma on vision
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"A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve."

Gandhi, Mahatma on vow
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"Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life."

Gandhi, Mahatma on vow
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"Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood."

Gandhi, Mahatma on vow
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"Morality is contraband in war."

Gandhi, Mahatma on war
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"It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator."

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"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

Gandhi, Mahatma on power
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"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."

Gandhi, Mahatma on wisdom
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"There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever."

Gandhi, Mahatma on worry
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"Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation."

Gandhi, Mahatma on adaptability
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"If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today."

Gandhi, Mahatma on christians and christianity
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"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest."

Gandhi, Mahatma on conflict
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"The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind."

Gandhi, Mahatma on control
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"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind."

Gandhi, Mahatma on control
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"The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated."

Gandhi, Mahatma on country
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"Fear has its use but cowardice has none."

Gandhi, Mahatma on war
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"Cowards can never be moral."

Gandhi, Mahatma on war
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"Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart."

Gandhi, Mahatma on culture
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"No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive."

Gandhi, Mahatma on culture
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"don't grow weeds, sow seeds. a solution made is better than a problem found"

Gandhi, Mahatma on problems
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"live as if your were to die tomorrow. learn as if you were to live forever."

Gandhi, Mahatma on life
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"Nothing is impossible for pure love."

Gandhi, Mahatma on love
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