Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Quotes

• Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

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• Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

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• Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

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• Anger is the enemy of nonviolence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

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• Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

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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.

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• I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

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• Poverty is the worst form of violence.

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• It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others’ religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world’s religions is a sacred duty.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Those who know how to think need no teachers.

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• The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

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• What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

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• Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

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• Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

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• Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

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• Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred.

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• Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

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• The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (268)

Birth:	2nd October, 1869
Death:	30th January, 1948
Nationality:	Indian
Profession:	Activist, Lawyer, Leader, Philosopher, Politician, Statesman, Writer

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