477 Quotes About Gandhi


  • Author Shashi Tharoor
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    On Gandhi: Don’t ever forget, that we were not lead by a saint with his head in clouds, but by a master tactician with his feet on the ground.

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  • Author Aravind Adiga
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    Go to the tea shop anywhere along the Ganga, sir, and look at the men working in that tea shop - men, I say, but better to call them human spiders that go crawling in between and under the tables with rags in their hands, crushed humans in crushed uniforms, sluggish, unshaven, in their thirties or forties or fifties but still "boys." But that is your fate if you do your job well - with honesty, dedication, and sincerity, the way Gandhi would have done it, no doubt.

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  • Author Moncure Daniel Conway
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    He shrank from even the smallest things that inclined towards self indulgence. He would not remain alone with a lady.{On Jain scholar Virchand Gandhi}

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  • Author Gandhi
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    La règle d'or de la conduite est la tolérance mutuelle, car nous ne penserons jamais tous de la même façon, nous ne verrons qu'une partie de la vérité et sous des angles différents.

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  • Author Gandhi
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    La vie est un mystère qu'il faut vivre, et non un problème à résoudre.

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  • Author Arundhati Roy
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    Gandhi actually said everything and it's opposite.To cherry pickers, he offers such a bewildering variety of cherries that you have to wonder if there was something the matter with the tree.

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  • Author Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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    The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby- not even money, certainly not my soul.

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