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Mahatma Gandhi

b. 1869; d. 1948  ·  8 aphorisms  ·  no comments

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Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (782 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

We must become the change we want to see.

[aphorist] Mahatma Gandhi, in [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (977 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999

In prayer, it is better to have a heart without words than words without heart.

[aphorist] Mahatma Gandhi, in [category] Science and Religion

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (749 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind.

[aphorist] Mahatma Gandhi, in [category] Vice and Virtue

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (2640 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.

[aphorist] Mahatma Gandhi, in [category] Law and Politics

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (739 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

I think it would be a good idea.

[aphorist] Mahatma Gandhi, (when asked what he thought of Western civilization), in [category] Law and Politics

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (740 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

[aphorist] Mahatma Gandhi, in [category] Law and Politics and [category] Vice and Virtue

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (2657 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

[aphorist] Mahatma Gandhi, in [category] Happiness and Misery

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (770 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

[aphorist] Mahatma Gandhi, in [category] Law and Politics and [category] Work and Recreation

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