Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
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More Quotes from Mohandas Gandhi
I had long since taught myself to follow the inner voice. I delighted in submitting to it. To act against it would be difficult and painful to me.
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow-beings.
Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.
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Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
Everything you said should be true but not everything true should be said.
The liar is no better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.
There is but one thing of real value—to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.
The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie.
And then she understood the devilish cunning of the enemies’ plan. By mixing a little truth with it they had made their lie far stronger.
A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
