Mahatma Gandhi

God has no religion.
– Mahatma Gandhi

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
– Mahatma Gandhi

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellowmen.
– Mahatma Gandhi

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
– Mahatma Gandhi

– What do you think of modern civilization?
– I think it would be a good idea.
Journalist, – Mahatma Gandhi

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil
it does is permanent.
– Mahatma Gandhi

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
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Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
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When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship
of the Creator.
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
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It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom.
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We have been deceived by the temporary but brillant results achieved by some wars.
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True beauty after all consists in purity of heart.
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The culture of the mind must be subservient to the culture of the heart.
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All communists are not bad, as all Congressmen are not angels. I have, therefore, no
prejudice against communists as such. Their philosophy, as they have declared it to me, I
cannot subscribe to.
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First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.
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Discontent is a very useful thing. As long as a man is contented with his present lot, so long
is it difficult to persuade him to get out of it. Therefore it is that every reform must be
preceded by discontent.
– Mahatma Gandhi

Knowledge which stops at the head and does not penetrate into the heart is of but little use
in the critical times of living experience.
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I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
– Mahatma Gandhi

When Americans come and ask me what service they can render, I tell them: If you dangle
your millions before us, you will make beggars of us and demoralize us. But in one thing I do
not mind being a beggar. I would beg of you your scientific talent. You can ask your
engineers and agricultural experts to place their services at our disposal. They must not come
to us as our lords and masters but as voluntary workers.
– Mahatma Gandhi

Speed is not the end of life. Man sees more and lives more truly by walking to his duty.
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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
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One’s faith in one’s plans and methods is truly tested when the horizon before one is the
blackest.
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Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect. Perfection
in love or non-possession will remain an unattainable ideal as long as we are alive, but
towards which we must ceaselessly strive.
– Mahatma Gandhi

Hatred injures the hater, never the hated.
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Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself: “I have also erred;” when I see a lustful man,
I say to myself: “So was I once;” and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and
feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy.
– Mahatma Gandhi

A man is but a product of his thoughts; what he thinks, that he becomes.
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Live simply, that others may simply live.
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A “No” uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a “Yes” merely to please, or worse,
to avoid trouble.
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I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one’s self-respect.
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Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.
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Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place.
– Mahatma Gandhi

We have had saints who have worn out their bodies, and laid down their lives in order to
explore the secrets of the soul.
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There is no one without faults, not even men of God. They are men of God not because they
are faultless but because they know their own faults, they strive against them, they do not
hide them and are ever ready to correct themselves.
– Mahatma Gandhi

The true education of the child begins from the very moment of its birth. The rudiments of
knowledge are imbibed almost in the course of play.
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For those who are filled with the presence of God in them, to labor is to pray. Their
life is one continous prayer, or act of worship.
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Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed.
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Truth and beauty I crave for, live for, and would die for.
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Children are innocent, loving and benevolent by nature. Evil comes only when they become
older.
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When vice becomes a fashion and even a virtue, it is a long process to deal with it.
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I cannot look at this butchery going on in the world with indifference. I have an
unchangeable faith that it is beneath the dignity of men to resort to mutual slaughter.
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I have my organization, myself. I am a man possessed by an idea. If such a man cannot get
an organization, he becomes an organization.
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Restraint is the law of our being. For highest perfection is unattainable without highest
restraint.
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Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We
require drums to be beaten into our ears before we should wake from our trance and hear the
warning and see that to lose oneself in all is the only way to find oneself.
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India is to be found not in its few cities but in its 700,000 villages.
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Insult offered to a single innocent member of a nation is tantamount to insulting the nation
as a whole.
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Transmigration and rebirth are not mere theories with me, but facts as patent as the daily
rise of the sun.
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Religion deals with the science of the soul.
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in
prayer.
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Religion which takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no
religion.
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Faith can only grow from within. It cannot be acquired vicariously. Nothing great in this world
was ever accomplished without a living faith.
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A man who fears no one on earth would consider it troublesome even to summon up anger
against one who is vainly trying to injure him.
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If I were to die among a shower of bullets, with a smile on my lips, that would be a hero’s
death.
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Strength in numbers is the delight of the timid. The valiant of spirit glory in fighting alone.
– Mahatma Gandhi

Music has given me peace. I can remember occasions when music instantly tranquillized my
mind, when I was greatly agitated over something. Music has helped me to overcome anger.
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God seems to be as cruel as he is merciful.
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Hinduism is not a religion… It is a way of life. Many who do not practice formal religion are
nearer to this way of life than some who do.
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If you cannot feel that the other faith is as true as yours, you should feel at least that the
men are as true as you.
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There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.
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It is good enough to talk of God while we are sitting here after a nice breakfast and looking
forward to a nicer luncheon, but how am I to talk of God to the millions who have to go
without two meals a day? To them God can only appear as bread and butter.
– Mahatma Gandhi

If Jesus came to earth again, he would disown many things that are being done in the name
of Christianity.
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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad
destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or
democracy?
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The test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence
of starvation among its masses.
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It is the fashion, now-a-days, to dismiss God from life altogether and insist on the possibility
of reaching the highest kind of life without the necessity of a living faith in a living God.
– Mahatma Gandhi

If one takes care of the means, the end will take care of itself.
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It is the special privilege of a friend to own the other’s faults and redeclare his affection in
spite of faults.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty. It is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s
hands.
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To revile one another’s religion, to make reckless statements, to utter untruth, to break the
head of innocent men, to desecrate temples or mosques, is a denial of God.
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Every one of my failures has been a stepping-stone.
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I never attempted to disguise my ignorance from my pupils.
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No tyrant has yet lived who has not paid for the suffering he has caused. No lover has ever
given pain without being more pained.
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Fatalism has its limits. We leave things to fate after exhausting all the remedies.
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Hinduism is not an exclusive religion. In it, there is room for the worship of all the prophets of
the world. It is not a missionary religion in the ordinary sense of the term. Hinduism tells
everyone to worship God according to his own faith or dharma, and so it lives at peace with
all religions.
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I am “anti-all-wars.”
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In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.
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Machinery has its place; it has come to stay. But it must not be allowed to displace
necessary human labor.
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As long as the birth of a girl does not receive the same welcome as that of a boy, so long we
should know that India is suffering from partial paralysis.
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A woman’s intuition has often proved truer than man’s arrogant assumption of superior
knowledge.
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The tendency of the Indian civilization is to elevate the moral being, that of the Western
civilization is to propagate immorality. The latter is godless, the former is based on belief in
God.
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Experience has made me wiser.
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Mankind cannot live by logic alone, but also needs poetry.
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Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that
surround it, it shines clear.
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.
– Mahatma Gandhi

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
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Things that will destroy man: Politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth
without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without
humanity; worship without sacrifice.
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I tolerate unreasonable religious sentiment when it is not immoral.
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Missionaries in India are laboring under a double fallacy: that what they think best for another
person is really so; and that what they regard as the best for themselves is the best for the
whole world. I am pleading for a little humility.
– Mahatma Gandhi

True happiness is impossible without true health, and true health is impossible without a rigid
control of the palate.
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Non-violence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute.
– Mahatma Gandhi

The example of a few true men or women if they have fully imbibed the spirit of non-violence
is bound to infect the whole mass in the end.
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Our passion for exercise should become so strong that we could not bring ourselves to
dispense with it on any account. We hardly realize how weak and futile is our mental work
when unaccompanied by hard physical exercise.
– Mahatma Gandhi

The very purpose of marriage is restraint and sublimation of the sexual passion. If there
is any other purpose, marriage is no consecration.
– Mahatma Gandhi

Put your talents in the service of the country instead of converting them into pounds,
shillings, and pence.
– Mahatma Gandhi

Non-cooperation is not a passive state, it is an intensely active state – more active than
physical resistance or violence. Passive resistance is a misnomer.
– Mahatma Gandhi

In order to overcome evil one must stand wholly outside it, that is, on the firm solid ground of
unadulterated good.
– Mahatma Gandhi

Courage, endurance, fearlessness and above all self-sacrifice are the qualities of our leaders.
– Mahatma Gandhi

Physical education should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training.
– Mahatma Gandhi

If man will only realize that it is unmanly to obey laws that are unjust, no man’s tyranny will
enslave him. This is the key to self- and home-rule.
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Look at the history of the British Empire and the British nation; freedom-loving as it is, it will
not be party to give freedom to a people who will not take it themselves.
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One never can achieve anything lasting in this world by being irresolute.
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Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.
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I am and I have been a determined opponent of modern civilization.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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Hundreds of nations live in peace. History does not and cannot take note of this fact. History
is really a record of every interruption of the even working of the force of love or of the soul.
History is a record of an interruption of the course of nature.
– Mahatma Gandhi

It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to truth than to entrust
oneself to one who “knows not that he knows not.”
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If you want something really important to be done, you must not merely satisfy reason, you
must move the heart also.
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Drink is more a disease than a vice.
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Most religious men I have met are politicians in disguise; I, however, who wear the guise of a
politician, am at heart a religious man.
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No matter how timid a man is, he is capable of the loftiest heroism when he is put to the
test.
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There is not truth in a man who cannot control his tongue.
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To give a little money is easy enough, to do a little thing one’s self is more difficult.
– Mahatma Gandhi

Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take
different roads, so long as we reach the same goal? In reality, there are as many religions as
there are individuals.
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Friendship cannot be bought by bribery.
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I am not a visionary. I claim to be a practical idealist.
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Morally I have no doubt that all self-denial is good for the soul.
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He who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend.
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I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
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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.
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Any tradition, however ancient, if inconsistent with morality, is fit ot be banished from the land.
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Ultimately a deceiver only deceives himself.
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The reformer’s path is strewn not with roses, but with thorns, and he has to walk warily.
He can but limp, dare not jump.
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Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
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Happiness is largely a mental condition. A man is not necessarily happy because he is rich, or
unhappy because he is poor. The rich are often seen to be unhappy, the poor to be happy.
– Mahatma Gandhi

The newspaperman has become a walking plague.
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I am used to misinterpretation all my life. It is the lot of every public worker. He has to have
a tough hide… It is a rule of life with me never to explain misinterpretations except when the
cause required correction.
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There is no such thing as religion overriding morality.
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When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always
won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in
the end, they always fall. Think of it always.
– Mahatma Gandhi

Under ideal conditions, true education could be imparted only by the parents, and there
should be the minimum of outside help.
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Fasting of the body has to be accompanied by fasting of all the senses.
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India’s freedom must revolutionize the world’s outlook upon peace and war… An India
awakened and free has a message of peace and goodwill to a groaning world.
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One thing took deep root in me – the conviction that morality is the basis of things, and that
truth is the substance of all morailty.
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Those who defy death are free from all fear.
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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean
are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
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My non-cooperation has its roots not in hatred, but in love.
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Spirituality is not a matter of knowing scriptures and engaging in philosophical discussions.
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If the wife has to prove her loyalty and undivided devotion to her husband, so has the
husband to prove his allegiance and devotion to his wife. You cannot have one set of weights
and measures for the one and a different one for the other.
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I do not believe in caste in the modern sense. It is an excrescence and a handicap on
progress.
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It is better in prayer to have a heart without words, than words without heart.
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To cultivate humility is tantamount to cultivating hypocrisy.
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It is the duty of him who claims to serve humanity not to be angry with those whom he is
serving.
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Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
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Non-violence in action cannot be sustained unless it goes hand in hand with non-violence
in thought.
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I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.
– Mahatma Gandhi

I do not believe in people telling others of their faith, especially with a view to conversion.
Faith does not admit of telling. It has to be lived and then it becomes self-propagating.
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If we have no love for our neighbors, no change, however revolutionary, can do us any good.
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There is no discredit greater than the refusal to acknowledge errors.
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