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Mohandas Gandhi Quotes
«I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.»
«Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.»
«Proved right should be capable of being vindicated by right means as against the rude i.e. sanguinary means. Man may and should shed his own blood for establishing what he considers to be his right. He may not shed the blood of his opponent who disputes his 'right'.»
«It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.»
Author: Mohandas Gandhi
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«I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically inexpedient, and have therefore always discountenanced its use even from the practical standpoint.»
«Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I say again, that every trifle must not be dignified into a principle.»
«I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be often upset by God, but, at the same time, where the ultimate goal is the search of truth, no matter how a man's plans are frustrated the issue is never injurious and often better then anticipated.»
«Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.»
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«Suffering has its well-defined limits. Suffering can be both wise and unwise, and when the limit is reached, to prolong it would be not unwise but the height of folly.»