Mahatma Gandhi

"Indifference is worse than oppression."

"Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization."

"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are allowed to remain children all our lives."

"Swaraj means government of the people by the people for the people."

"Increase of material comforts does not in any way conduct to lessening of greed."

"Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly."

"The atoms and the cells are the living parts of the Lord, and deserve to be treated with care."

"Civilization is the encouragement of differences. Civilization thus becomes a synonym for democracy."

"To lose patience is to lose the battle."

"A person is but the product of their thoughts; what they think about, they become."

"True morality consists not in following great principles of conduct, but in being governed by the feeling of love."

"Democracy is not a state which can ever be perfected but is a state which requires constant adjustments and reappraisals."

"The history of the world is the history of the few."

"There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly irrespective of my own wel-being."

"My religion is not a religion of the prison house. It has room for the least and the lost."

"The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed."

"Infinite patience brings immediate results."

"Love never claims, it ever gives."

"True wealth is not money but relationships with others."

"At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want."

"A man cannot do right in one department whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in another department. Life is one indivisible whole."

"The moment a person learns to obey implicitly a principle, he becomes incapable of violating it."

"The greatest battles of life are fought out every day in the silent chambers of one's soul."

"Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served."

"Everything comes to those who wait, but a person who hustles does not wait."

"The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent."

"Knowledge gained through personal experience is far superior to bookish knowledge."

"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers."

"Death and life are two sides of the same coin."

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."