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
Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.
Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.
In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.
Democracy and violence can ill go together.
[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.
We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.
We don't use guns because we don't have guns
We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.
Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there.
You can't lead a true life without suffering
There are as many different religions as there are individuals.
There are no good-byes, where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart.
A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.