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
Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view
Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it
The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.
It is the law of love that rules mankind.
If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed � but hate these things in yourself, not in another.
I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity.
Patience means self-suffering.
I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.
A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.
If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.
A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them.
The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.
Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.
The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.