“I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
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“A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.”
“Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.”
“There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.”
“Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.”
“Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.”
“I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.”
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
“Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.”
“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.”
“Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.”
“What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.”
“If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.”
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
“The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.”
“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love it is the prerogative of the brave.”
“Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.”
“I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.”
“Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.”
“Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.”
“It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.”
“Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.”
“Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.”