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Acceptance
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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Action(s)
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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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Adaptability
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Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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Anger
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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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Capitalism
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Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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Change
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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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Christianity
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If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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Confidence
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The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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Conflict
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To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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Consumerism
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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Control
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Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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Cowardice/Weakness
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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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Cowards can never be moral.
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To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith.
-Mahatma Gandhi, November 24, 1946
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My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving dear ones unprotected. Between violence and cowardly flight, I can only prefer violence to cowardice. I can no more preach nonviolence to a coward than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.
-Mahatma Gandhi, The Gospel of Nonviolence (essay)
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Culture
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Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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Despair
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When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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Evil
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Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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Faith
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Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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Books by and about Mahatma Gandhi