Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
India
2 Oct 1869 // 30 Jan 1948
Spiritual Leader
2 Oct 1869 // 30 Jan 1948
Spiritual Leader
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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
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind
Where there is love there is life
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible
We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party
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
We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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