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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) was the inspiring and unstoppable political and spiritual leader of the Indian independence movement. He advocated and practiced total non-violent mass civil disobedience, which led India to independence from the British and inspired civil rights movements around the world. He is officially honored in India as the Father of the Nation. He was assassinated by a political extremist in 1948.
My life is my message. - Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Mohandas Gandhi is often referred to as Mahatma Gandhi. "Mahatma" is an honorific title meaning "Great Soul" in Sanskrit, and thus is similar to the word "Saint" in Christianity.
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
God has no religion. Each one prays to God according to his own light.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Each one prays to God according to his own light.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
My life is my message.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Peace is its own reward.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984) was Prime Minister of India from 1966 to 1977 and from 1980 until her assassination in 1984. Indira Gandhi was not related to Mohandas Gandhi.
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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Indira Gandhi
The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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Indira Gandhi
Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
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Indira Gandhi
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
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Indira Gandhi
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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Indira Gandhi
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