Mahatma Gandhi

Political Leader

Mahatma Gandhi was a leader in India's struggle for independence, known for his philosophy of nonviolent resistance and commitment to truth.

Born
October 2, 1869
Died
January 30, 1948
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"If we remain nonviolent, hatred will die as everything does from disuse."

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"You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live."

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"A nation that is capable of limitless sacrifice is capable of rising to limitless heights. The purer the sacrifice the quicker the progress."

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"I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. I have always believed God to be without form. What I did hear was like a Voice from afar, and yet quite near."

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"I have in my life never been guilty of saying things I did not mean - my nature is to go straight to the heart and if often I fail in doing so for the time being, I know that Truth ultimately makes itself heard and felt, as it has often done in my experience."

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"Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence."

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"Today, as it was 2,000 years ago, the Kingdom of God is within each of us. It is not within a church, a temple, a mosque or synagogue."

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"The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that, too, unconditional assistance."

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"I do not believe that the spiritual law works on a field of its own. On the contrary, it expresses itself only through the ordinary activities of life. It thus affects the economic, the social and the political fields."

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"There are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed."

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"It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means."

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"Everything that we do is insignificant...and...it is very important that we do it!"

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"I like their Christ, but I don't like their Christians."

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"It's a big error to dream of a society where nobody needs to be good."

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"It is nature's kindness that we do not remember past births. Life would be a burden if we carried such a tremendous load of memories."

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"Yajna having come to us with our birth, we are debtors all our lives, and thus for ever bound to serve the universe."

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"Yajna is not yajna if one feels it to be burdensome or annoying."

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"The essence of a vow does not consist in the difficulty of its performance but in the determination behind it unflinchingly to stick to it in the teeth of difficulties."

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