Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political thinker who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule. He inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahātmā, first applied to him in South Africa in 1914, is used worldwide.

Quotes

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
The good man is the friend of all living things.
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Mistakes
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty, it is it's own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
I think it would be a good idea.
There is more to life than increasing its speed
In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

War
I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.
All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.
Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.