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
To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.
No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.
The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.
In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force.
Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says "Do this."
Faith is the function of the heart.
President means chief servant
Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.
The principle of majority does not work when differences on fundamentals are involved.
Be the change that you want to see
If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.
Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place.
Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.
I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism, and disabused me of the notion fostered by the missionaries that Hinduism was rife with superstition.