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A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.

Mahatma Gandhi
Business, Important, Retail

It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.

Mahatma Gandhi
Love, Heart, Law
Mahatma Gandhi (1924). “Young India: 1919-1922”

No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.

Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom, Majority, Doe
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering.

Mahatma Gandhi
Mean, Suffering, Infinite
Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.196, Penguin Books India

We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend.

Mahatma Gandhi
School, Independent, Government
Mahatma Gandhi (2014). “Freedom's Battle: Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation”, p.236, The Floating Press

Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.

Mahatma Gandhi
Humanity, Black, Vivisection

However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.

Mahatma Gandhi
May, Opponents, Violence
Young India, 11 Dec. 1924

Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great and fine discoveries. We are dazzled by the material progress that Western science has made. Ancient India has survived because Hinduism was not developed along material but spiritual lines.

Mahatma Gandhi
Spiritual, Eye, Discovery

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.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Sex, Men
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.157, A&C Black

What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered, and conducted wars, war criminals? War criminals are not confined to the Axis Powers alone. Roosevelt and Churchill are no less war criminals than Hitler and Mussolini. England, America and Russia have all of them got their hands dyed more or less red - not merely Germany and Japan.

Mahatma Gandhi
Military, War, Axes

Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand.

Mahatma Gandhi
Truth, Moral, Contrary
Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.125, Hackett Publishing

No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye.

Mahatma Gandhi
Eye, Skeletons, Naked
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.122, A&C Black

Ahimsa is the strongest force known.

Mahatma Gandhi
Force, Ahimsa, Strongest
Mahatma Gandhi (194?). “Gandhi's Wisdom Box”

For India to enter into the race for armaments is to court suicide.

Mahatma Gandhi
Suicide, Race, India
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.98, Courier Corporation

A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.

Mahatma Gandhi
Conformity, Obedience, Persons

The snakes have their place in the agricultural economy of the village, but our villagers do not seem realize it.

Mahatma Gandhi
Snakes, Village, Realizing
Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Violence, He Man
Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “Hindu Dharma”

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

Mahatma Gandhi
Faith, Wise, Spiritual
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.57, A&C Black

Even as satyagraha is a weapon unique of its kind and not one of the ordinary weapons used by people, so is Khadi, a unique article of commerce which will not, cannot, succeed on terms common to other articles.

Mahatma Gandhi
Unique, People, Succeed
Mahatma Gandhi (1935). “Young India, 1927-1928”

I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones.

Mahatma Gandhi
Country, Truth, Men
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.76, A&C Black

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

Mahatma Gandhi
Religious, Taken, Passion
Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.116, Tara Publishing

To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.

Mahatma Gandhi
Faith, Hope, Believe
Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.142, Oxford University Press

I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.

Mahatma Gandhi
Handwriting, Saws, Imperfect
Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.13, Courier Corporation

With my meager knowledge of my own religion I do not want to belong to any religious body

Mahatma Gandhi
Religious, Body, Want

Truth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you.

Mahatma Gandhi
Beauty, Truth, Firsts
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.68, A&C Black