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
Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb grows out of nonviolence.
The earth has enough resources for our need, but not for our greed.
If all Christians acted like Christ, the whole world would be Christian.
What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.
Our peaceful non-co-operation must be constructive, non-destructive. Poison should not emerge from the throes of love.
In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.
There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.
No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice and a long face go ill together. Sacrifice is 'making sacred'. He must be a poor specimen of humanity who is in need of sympathy for his sacrifice.
Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowardly submission. The latter befits neither man nor woman. Under violence, there are many stages and varieties of bravery. Every man must judge this for himself. No other person can or has the right.
We have no evidence whatsoever that the soul perishes with the body.
Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.
Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.
Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.
Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.