Eredeti: You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result.
Mahatma Gandhi idézetek
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Eredeti: Newspaper press is a great power, but just as an unchained torrent of water submerges whole country sides and devastates crops, even so an uncontrolled pen serves but to destroy.
„Az emberek önzetlen szolgálata bármilyen formában végül az egész országot segíti.”
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Eredeti: Disinterested service of people in any sphere ultimately helps the country.
„Bármit teszel jelentéktelen lesz, de nagyon fontos, hogy megtedd.”
Eredeti: Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
„Még ha egy fős kisebbség vagyok is, az igazság igazság marad.”
Eredeti: Even If I am a minority of one, truth is still the truth.
Eredeti: 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 then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Eredeti: My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.
Eredeti: If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone.
Eredeti: I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. The materialism of affluent Christian countries appears to contradict the claims of Jesus Christ that says it's not possible to worship both Mammon and God at the same time.
„A nőket a tolerancia megtestesüléseként tisztelem.”
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Eredeti: I regard women as an incarnation of tolerance.
„Semmi sem lehetetlen a tiszta szeretetnek.”
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Eredeti: Nothing is impossible for pure love.
„A veszély elmúltával Isten neve is eltűnik.”
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Eredeti: With disappearance of danger also disappears the name of God.
„Amikor valakinek az indítékaira a gyanú árnyéke vetül, minden amit tesz bemocskolódik.”
Eredeti: The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
„A Gazdagnak egyszerűbben kell élnie, hogy a Szegény egyszerűen megélhessen.”
Alternatív fordítás: A szegény egyszerűen él. Élhetne a gazdag is egyszerűen.
Eredeti: The Rich must live more simply so that the Poor may simply live.
„Megkötözhettek, megkínozhattok, elpusztíthatjátok ezt a testet, de az elmém szabad lesz.”
Eredeti: You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Eredeti: It may be long before the law of love will be recognized in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.
„Egy reformer nem engedhet meg magának közeli kapcsolatot azzal, akit meg kíván változtatni.”
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Eredeti: A reformer cannot afford to have close intimacy with him whom he seeks to reform.
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Eredeti: Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. Proneness to exaggerate, to suppress or modify the truth, wittingly or unwittingly, is a natural weakness of man and silence is necessary in order to surmount it
„Nálam mindig elsőbbséget élvezett a jellemépítés.”
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Eredeti: I always gave first place to building of character.
Eredeti: When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall — think of it, always.
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Eredeti: True education could be imparted only by the parents and that then there should be minimum of outside help.
„A legfőbb vágyam ezen a földön, hogy békét, örömöt, fényt leljek a Hinduizmus által.”
Eredeti: I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism.
„A féltékenység nem hallgat az értelemre.”
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Eredeti: Jealousy does not wait for reasons.
„Hinni valamiben, és nem azáltal élni becstelenség.”
Eredeti: To believe in something, and not live it, is dishonest.
Eredeti: Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but nobody is willing to put in the work necessary to achieve these goals.
„Az ember a gondolatai szüleménye. Amit gondol, azzá lesz.”
Eredeti: Man is the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
„Ha a hitem fényesen tündököl, (…) a síron túl is élni fogok, sőt mi több, hallatni a hangomat!”
Eredeti: If my faith burns bright, (...) I shall be alive in the grave, and what is more, speaking from it!
„Hindu vagyok, és egyszerre muszlim, keresztény, buddhista és zsidó.”
Eredeti: I am a hindu, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.
Eredeti: Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
Eredeti: The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.
Eredeti: 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.
Válaszul egy újságíró kérdésére, hogy mi az üzenete a világnak.
Eredeti: My life is my message.
Eredeti: The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. That State is the best governed which is governed the least.
„Ezért az ügyért képes vagyok meghalni, de nincs olyan ügy, barátom, amiért képes volnék ölni.”
Eredeti: For this cause I too am prepared to die, but for no cause, my friend, will I be prepared to kill.
„Nem lehetünk beszélők, akik nem hallgatnak. De hallgatók sem lehetünk, akik nem beszélnek.”
Eredeti: We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak.
Eredeti: We can only pray, if we are Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu … But our innermost prayer should be a Hindu should be a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, a Christian a better Christian.