Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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I firmly believe that the foundation of the world is love.

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Life without love is death.

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If you face an adversary, defeat him with love.

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If we want to achieve real peace around the world, we have to start with the children.

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If you want the world to change, be that change.

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To a man with an empty stomach, God is food.

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In prayer, it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

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There are more important things in life than accelerating its speed.

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In matters of conscience the law of the majority has no effect.

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God is love; this is the only truth I fully recognize. Love is equal to God.

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Life is only where there is love. When you attain self-control and learn to control your passions, you will forget despair.

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Love and truth are the two sides of the coin.

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Love never asks, it always gives. Love suffers without regretting it and without seeking revenge.

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The value of an ideal lies in the fact that it recedes as we approach it.

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Where there is no will, there is no love.

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Freedom has no value unless it includes the freedom to make mistakes.

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The right to criticize people in the most severe way belongs to the one who has convinced them of his love, of the integrity of his opinions, the one who is sure that he will not be upset if people do not accept his ideas and do not take them in mind In other words, a critic needs the gift of clear perception of the world and boundless tolerance.

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A "no" spoken with deep conviction is better than a "yes" spoken just for fun or, worse, to avoid trouble.

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There is no righteousness in him who cannot control his tongue.

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If I didn't have a sense of humor, I would have ended my days long ago.

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Prayer is a key to tomorrow and a lock to yesterday.

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The world is big enough to satisfy the needs of any man, but it is too small to satisfy human greed.

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Live as if today is your last day. Study as if you will live forever.

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The human voice never reaches as far as the conscience.

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We must not forget that throughout history there have always been tyrants and murderers who seemed invincible for a while, but always fell in the end. Always.

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I oppose violence because even if it appears to be useful, the benefit is only temporary, but the horror it causes is permanent.

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I don't want to foresee the future. I only care about the present. God has given us no power over the next moment.

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Humanity is governed by the law of love. If violence, i.e. hatred, ruled, we would have died out long ago. And yet the tragedy is that so-called civilized people and nations behave as if violence is the foundation of society.

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We can keep something as we got it.

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He who wishes to see face to face the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth must learn to love even the meanest creature as himself. Anyone who strives for this should not withdraw from any area of ​​life. This is how the passionate love of the Truth may have pushed me into the field of politics, and without hesitation, although with the deepest humility, I can say that anyone who believes that religion has nothing to do with politics does not know what religion is.

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Use truth as your anvil, non-violence as your hammer, and reject everything that does not stand the test of the anvil of truth and the hammer of non-violence.

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Even the hardest iron must melt in the flames of love.

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Love is the most powerful force in the world, which is the most human.

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It is good to be reminded that even the strongest can be weak and the wisest can be wrong.

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There are two types of power. One achieves its goal through fear of punishment, the other through loving actions. Power based on love is a hundred times more effective and lasting than power based on fear of punishment.

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If you're right, you can afford to keep your cool. If you're wrong, you can't afford to lose.

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The greater the progress, the greater the recognition of our disability. Satisfaction lies in the pursuit, not the attainment.

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Let the culture of every country surround my house. But none of them should separate me from the soil of my homeland.

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The principle of an eye for an eye only leads to the blinding of the whole world.

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The difference between what we do and what we could do could change the world.

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Until we feel sympathy and love for all our fellow creatures, we cannot say that we have understood the law of morality.

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We believe that retribution is the law of existence. After all, the law of our existence: defeating ourselves.

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Nonviolence is a state of perfection. It represents the goal toward which humanity naturally, if perhaps unconsciously, moves.

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The only reward for a job well done is that we got to do it.

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You never know what the results of your actions will be, but if you don't act, they won't have any results.

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Love and truth form such a close unity that it is practically impossible to separate them. They are like two sides of the same coin.

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Freedom cannot be won without suffering.

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The law of karma is merciless, no one can escape it. Therefore, there is no need for God himself to intervene. He laid down the law, then retired.

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Only discipline from within can be useful.

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The press is a great power, but just as the flood of water that bursts through its dams destroys entire regions and destroys crops, so too the unbridled pen only serves to destroy. But being restrained from the outside is worse than not being restrained at all.

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Only the truly asleep can be awakened; if one feigns sleep, all efforts are futile against him.

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A poet is someone who can bring out the good hidden in a person.

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People often make plans in vain, because God often thwarts their intentions, but where the ultimate goal is the search for Truth, even if one's plans fail, the result will not be bad, and often even better than expected.

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Man is man because he is capable of self-restraint, and he is man insofar as he exercises this ability.

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Democracy survives when people have a strong sense of independence, self-respect and unity, and when they insist on electing only good and true people as their representatives.

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During the search for the Truth, anger, selfishness, and hatred naturally fade away, because otherwise we would not be able to reach the Truth.

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How dearly must one pay for the sins and transgressions that man commits for wealth, power, and fame!

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The lawyer's real task is to reconcile the opposing parties.

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The easiest way to get justice for ourselves is to provide justice to others.

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True friendship is a spiritual identification that rarely occurs in this world.

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The basis of things is morality, and the essence of all morality is truth.

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A convert is always a more fervent follower of his new religion than one who was born into it.

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You don't even know, let alone know in advance, what will help you through your trials.

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Great people never look at the outside, they look at the heart.

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Lawyering is a bad profession - a lot of stunts, little knowledge.

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The sincere and pure wishes of our hearts are always fulfilled.

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Joyless service does not benefit either the service provider or the one he serves. But all other pleasures and possessions are nothing compared to the service we gladly perform.

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Is there a limit beyond which love cannot break?

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A person can only correctly perceive how his own faults are proportional to those of others, if he looks at his own through a magnifying glass, and at the opposite, through a reducing lens.

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Children should not be placed in the hands of ordinary teachers. Education is never as important as a person's moral quality.

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Imagine a lonely sage walking along a dark road before dawn, showing the way to his fellow humans with a lantern in his hand! Such sages, bearers of light, can only show you the path you are willing to follow. If they go astray, their followers will also lose their way. If you were this wise man, would you be able to lead people by example?

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Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

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The weak cannot forgive. Forgiveness is an attribute of the strong.

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony with each other.

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Religions are different paths leading to the same place. What does it matter that we are on separate paths if our goal is common?

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They can't take away our self-respect if we don't give it to you.

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The world's resources are sufficient to satisfy everyone's needs, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed.

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It seems that it is much more difficult to conquer the invisible passions than to conquer the visible world with a weapon.

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A coward is incapable of showing love, that is the privilege of the brave.

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We have to be the change we want to see in the world.

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Only speak when you can say something more meaningful than silence.

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Your beliefs determine your thoughts, your thoughts determine your words, your words determine your actions, your actions determine your habits, your habits determine your values, your values ​​determine your destiny.

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The roots of violence: Prosperity without work, Joy without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles.

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God has no religion.

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Strength does not come from physical ability. Its source is unshakable will.

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Violence is better when there is passion in our hearts than meekness that only disguises helplessness.

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It is the deed that counts, not the consequences of the deed. You must always do the right thing. Maybe it doesn't depend on you, and maybe there won't be consequences in your time, but that doesn't mean you don't have to do the right thing. You never know what the outcome of your actions will be. But if you do nothing, there will be no results.

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All our gold and jewels cannot satisfy our hunger and quench our thirst.

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The movement I have been given to lead is divine in nature. All that is good in him, all that is divine, all that is bad in him can be attributed to me.

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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

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I am painfully aware of my imperfections, and all my strength lies in this knowledge.