Mahatma Gandhi Zitate auf Englisch

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Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

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It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

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Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

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The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

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I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

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All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

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It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

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Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

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It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

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I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

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An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

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Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

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Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

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A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

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A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

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To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

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Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

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I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

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For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

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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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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

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There is more to life than increasing its speed.

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Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

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Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

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There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

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I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

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Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

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The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

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