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An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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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)
Hate the sin and love the sinner.
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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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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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