Mahatma Gandhi

“You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.”

“It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.”

“The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be an example through centuries to come, and his Ideal will reach perfection.”

“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.”

“Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.”

“The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.”

“When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.”

“Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.”

“Truth resides in every human heart,and one has to search for it there,and to be guided by truth as one sees it.But no one has a right to coerce othersto act according to his own view of truth.”

“Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.”

“They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.”

“As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.”

“There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.”

“I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.”

“I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality which lies at the heart of all progress.”

“Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help…”

“I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.”

“Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.”

“It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are neverable to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say.”

“But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.”

“It is not that I do not get angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience as angerlessness, and generally speaking, I succeed. But I only control my anger when it comes. How I find it possible to control it would be a useless question, for it is a habit that everyone must cultivate and must succeed in forming by constant practice.”

“It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.”

“Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.”

“Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment.”

“The only tyrant I accept is the still, small voice within me.”

“All have not the same capacity. I would allow a man of intellect to earn more, I would not cramp his talent.”

“One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole”

“If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.”

“Kepuasan sebenarnya terletak dalam usaha yang kita lakukan bukan dalam pencapaiannya.”

“Salah sekali untuk menuntut orang lain agar bersih kalau kita sendiri tetap tidak bersih.”

“There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.”

“Kebijaksanaan yang paling tinggi adalah, jangan khawatir akan hari esok.”

“Kekerasan adalah senjata orang yang jiwanya lemah.”

“Jangan bekerja sama dengan kejahatan, sebab kewajiban kita adalah bekerja sama dengan kebaikan.”

“Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid. The Valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone.”

“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”

“Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.”

“Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.”

“Where love is, there God is also.”

“A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.”

“An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.”

“There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.”

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

“That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.”

“They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.”

“The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.”

“I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.”

“Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.”

“Hal yang pali aku sesali adalah aku tidak bisa membuat dua orang mengerti jalan pikiran ku, orang pertama adalah Muhammad Ali Jihad dan kedua adalah anakku, Harilal.”

“Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.”