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All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

Mohandas Gandhi

Compromise

Surrender

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

Mohandas Gandhi

Nonviolence

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

Mohandas Gandhi

Men

Mystery

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

Mohandas Gandhi

Growth

May

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

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.

Mohandas Gandhi

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