One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
More Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi:
The greatness of the human being is not in the reincarnation of the world but in the reincarnation of ourselves.Mahatma Gandhi
The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.
Mahatma Gandhi
There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint.
Mahatma Gandhi
Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.
Mahatma Gandhi
Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
Mahatma Gandhi
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
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