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
... there are chords in every human heart. If we only knew how to strike the right chord, we would bring out the music.
... we have to learn to use that force (love) among all that lives, and in the use of it consists our knowledge of God. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.
... the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties driven asunder.
Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy.
It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation.
It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.
It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion, his soul, and lay the foundation for that empire's fall or its regeneration.
Both heaven and hell are within us.
I implicitly believe in the truth of the saying that not a blade of grass moves but by His will. He will save it (my life) if He needs it for further service in this body. None can save it against His will.
No one has the capacity to judge God. We are drops in that limitless ocean of mercy.
There are subjects where reason cannot take us far and we have to accept things on faith. Faith then does not contradict reason but transcends it. Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.
Let our first act each morning be the following resolve: I shall not fear anyone on Earth. I shall fear only God.
But success and failure are of no account. They are God's concern, not mine.
Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.