Brilliant Gandhi Quotes
Here are a few of my favorite quotes by Mahatma Gandhi:
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have
always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it — always.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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.
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
From Non-Violence in Peace and War
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
(Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13, May 3, 1919)
I think it would be a good idea.
(when asked what he thought of Western civilization)
According to Gandhi, the 7 sins are :
- wealth without works,.
- pleasure without conscience,
- knowledge without character,
- commerce without morality,
- science without humanity,
- worship without sacrifice,
- and politics without principle.
The earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.
What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.
We cannot have ecological movement designed to prevent violence against nature, unless the principle of non-violence becomes central to the ethics of human culture.
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