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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.

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Faith

All Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

“Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Best

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Great

“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

“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.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Life

“Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom

“A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Faith

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

God

“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

“What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Hope

“I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Truth

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Forgiveness

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Relationship

“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.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Faith

“When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Beauty

“Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Religion

“Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Fear

“I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

God

“If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Peace

“The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Truth