WORDS FROM A GREAT MIND

Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Indian independence leader & advocate of nonviolence

Born: 2 October 1869
Died: 30 January 1948
Lived in: India, London & South Africa

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi helped lead India’s independence movement through nonviolent resistance. His writing connected political freedom with personal discipline, truth, forgiveness and responsibility to others. He was a movement leader rather than a head of government.

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His writings often returned to everyday conduct as the practical test of political and religious ideals.

Words by Mahatma Gandhi

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”

The Gospel of Love · Collected Young India excerpt

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“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err and even to sin.”

Young India, 12 March 1931 · On the right to make mistakes

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“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”

Young India, 11 August 1920 · On nonviolence and inner strength

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“Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.”

Young India, 5 May 1920 · On love

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“The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from whom it comes.”

Harijan, 28 March 1936 · On reason and experience

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