Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

India
2 Oct 1869 // 30 Jan 1948
Spiritual Leader

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It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence
It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings
Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being
Indeed one's faith in one's plans and methods is truly tested when the horizon before one is the blackest
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart
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