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Mahatma Gandhi

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule, and whose legacy would later inspire movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahātmā (Sanskrit: "great-souled", "venerable"), first applied to him in 1914 in South Africa, is now used throughout the world.

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Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

—Mahatma Gandhi

change the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

—Mahatma Gandhi

change wish the world

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

—Mahatma Gandhi

defeat

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

—Mahatma Gandhi

differences

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

—Mahatma Gandhi

forgiveness

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.

—Mahatma Gandhi

laziness

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

—Mahatma Gandhi

mistakes

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

—Mahatma Gandhi

revenge

I do dimly perceive that while everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying all that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves, and re-creates. That informing power of spirit is God, and since nothing else that I see merely through the senses can or will persist, He alone is.

—Mahatma Gandhi

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.

—Mahatma Gandhi

wisdom

Neither enemy faces, nor the mothers that love them, come to mind when one is thinking of nothing but endeavouring to survive. Philosophising about war is useless under fire.

—Mahatma Gandhi

war

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

—Mahatma Gandhi

silence

If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.

—Mahatma Gandhi

God neighbors seeking

The good man is the friend of all living things.

—Mahatma Gandhi

living good

I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy none. I have, therefore, arrived at the conclusion that the best course is to satisfy one's own conscience and leave the world to form its own judgment, favorable or otherwise.

—Mahatma Gandhi

satisfaction judgement conscience