Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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Mahatma Gandhi

Profession : Leader

Birth : October 2, 1869

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

Mahatma Gandhi

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

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Morality is contraband in war.

Mahatma Gandhi

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Mahatma Gandhi

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.

Mahatma Gandhi

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

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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 in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Mahatma Gandhi

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

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Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

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For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

Mahatma Gandhi

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

Mahatma Gandhi