Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahatma—applied to him first in 1914 in South Africa,—is now used worldwide. He is also called Bapuin India. In common parlance in India he is often called Gandhiji. He is unofficially called the Father of the Nation...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth2 October 1869
CityPortbandar, India
CountryIndia
Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.
That which is inherent in man is his virtue.
Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways.
Man, through the cow, is enjoined to realize his identity with all that lives.
A man of truth must ever be confident, if he has also equal need to be diffident.
If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent.
That which makes man the mere plaything of fate is God.
The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.
A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.
Human dignity demands courage to defend oneself.
Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence.
No two men are absolutely alike, not even twins, yet there is much that is indispensably common to all mankind.
A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.
All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration.