Mahatma Gandhi

“True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.”

“Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself”

“Il vaut mieux mettre son coeur dans la prière sans trouver de paroles que trouver des mots sans y mettre son coeur.”

“The Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions.”

“Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.”

“There are as many different religions as there are individuals.”

“There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.”

“Uzmi osmeh idaruj ga onome ko ga nikad nije imao.Uzmi zrak sunca iučini da odleti tamo gde vlada noć.Otkrij izvor iokupaj onoga ko živi u blatu.Uzmi suzu ipoloži je na lice onoga ko nikad nije plakao.Uzmi hrabrost istavi je u dušu onoga ko se ne sme boriti.Otkrij život ipripovedaj o njemu onome ko ga ne može shvatiti.Uzmi nadu iživi u njenoj svetlosti.Uzmi dobrotu idaruj je onome ko ne zna darivati.Otkrij ljubav ipokaži je čitavom svetu.”

“Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. I am sensible of the fact that they are indescribable and inscrutable. But if mortal man will dare to describe them, he has no better medium than his own inarticulate speech.”

“But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.”

“You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.”

“unity to be real must survive the severest strain without breaking.”

“A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.”

“My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth”

“The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.”

“Um homem não pode fazer o certo numa área da vida, enquanto está ocupado em fazer o errado em outra. A vida é um todo indivisível.”

“To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?"[To the Women of India (Young India, Oct. 4, 1930)]”

“If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.”

“You yourself as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve love and affection.”

“To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend. ”

“Dobbiamo diventare il cambiamento che vogliamo vedere.”

“Live simply so that others may simply live.”

“Du und ich: Wir sind eins. Ich kann dir nicht wehtun, ohne mich zu verletzen.”

“Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty and of unique dimensions. It was the toy of the exhibition. So long as we are children we are attracted by toys, and the tower was a good demonstration of the fact that we are all children attracted by trinkets. That may be claimed to be the purpose served by the Eiffel Tower.”

“I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of doors at night. Darkness was a terror to me. It was almost impossible for me to sleep in the dark, as I would imagine ghosts coming from one direction, thieves from another and serpents from a third. I could not therefore bear to sleep without a light in the room. ”

“There is an incident which occurred at the examination during my first year at the high school and which is worth recording. Mr. Giles, the Educational Inspector, had come on a visit of inspection. He had set us five words to write as a spelling exercise. One of the words was 'kettle'. I had mis-spelt it. The teacher tried to prompt me with the point of his boot, but I would not be prompted. It was beyond me to see that he wanted me to copy the spelling from my neighbour's slate, for I had thought that the teacher was there to supervise us against copying. The result was that all the boys, except myself, were found to have spelt every word correctly. Only I had been stupid. The teacher tried later to bring this stupidity home to me, but without effect. I never could learn the art of 'copying'. ”

“kekalahan tak bisa mengecilkan hatiku”

“In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.”

“No hay caminos para la paz; la paz es el camino.”

“Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.”

“If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!”

“I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.”

“I believe in trusting. Trust begets trust. Suspicion is foetid and only stinks. He who trusts has never yet lost in the world.”

“I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all.”

“No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.”

“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”

“Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified.”

“Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means.”

“The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.”

“Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.”

“Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.”

“I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.”

“I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle.”

“The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.”

“I shall die, but I will not kill.”

“Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image.”

“There's no God higher than truth.”

“Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.”

“Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.”

“Seja a mudança que espera ver no mundo.”