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Mahatma Gandhi

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Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) was an Indian lawyer and political activist who became the leader of India's independence movement against British colonial rule. Through his philosophy of nonviolent resistance, Gandhi inspired civil rights and freedom movements across the world. He is widely regarded as one of the most transformative leaders in modern history.

“Those who know how to think need no teachers.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Teacher

All Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

“Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Faith

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Strength

“I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Society

“It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Politics

“I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Good

“An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Truth

“Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Morning

“I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Great

“Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Good

“Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Truth

“Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Anger

“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Life

“Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

History

“My life is my message.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Life

“Where there is love there is life.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Life

“Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Relationship

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom

“I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Love

“One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Religion

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Faith