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1869–1948 India
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule, and to later inspire movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahātmā (Sanskrit: "great-souled", "venerable"), first applied to him in 1914 in South Africa, is now used throughout the world.
India Activists Journalists Lawyers Memoirists Also known as: Gandhi, Gandhi, Mahatma, Mahatma Ghandi, Mohandas Gandhi, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
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To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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All religions should be treated equally.
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We need to be the change we wish to see in the world.
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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.
Misattributed Prof. Michael N. Nagler in his foreword to Gandhi the Man (1978)
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
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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.
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Hate the sin and love the sinner.
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Poverty is the worst kind of violence.
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I have never advocated "passive" anything. We must never submit to unjust laws. Never. And our resistance must be active and provocative.
Disputed This may be derived from lines in the movie Gandhi (1982)
[asked what he thought of modern civilization] That would be a good idea.
Disputed On p. 75 of Ralph Keyes' book The Quote Verifier (2006)
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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If you don't ask, you don't get.
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When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has 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...
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I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. The materialism of affluent Christian countries appears to contradict the claims of Jesus Christ that says it's not possible to worship both Mammon and God at the same time.
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There is enough wealth in the world to satisfy everyone's needs, ...'. This quote is actually credited to an American pastor of Swiss origin Frank Buchman, founder of the Moral Rearmament movement. Misquotes that Bapu is forced to wear.
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Action expresses priorities.
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A patient is the most important person in our hospital. He is not an interruption to our work, he is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our hospital. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favour by serving him. He is doing us a favour by giving us an opportunity to do so. Attributed to Gandhi since the 1970s. While Gandhi was in charge of a company of stretcher bearers, he did not run a hospital. The origin of this quote can be found in a number of business publications in the 1940s. A version attributed to Gandhi in a 1970 advertisement in Foreign Trade of India states "A customer is the most important visitor on our premises." The quote is the motto of Bombay Hospital, but no attribution to Gandhi is currently given.
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