Monday, April 25, 2011

Mahatma Gandi quotations




I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians.
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Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
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Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
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Be the change that you want to see in the world.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
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You must not lose faith in humanity.
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Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
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A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
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A weak man is just by accident.
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A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident
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Action expresses priorities.
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Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
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All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals.
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Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender.
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For it is all give and no take.
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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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Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed.
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Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
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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.
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An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
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An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
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An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

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