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Disputed quotes — Mahatma Gandhi

1869–1948 India

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10 quotes

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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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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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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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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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mahatma Gandhi (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.