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
I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher
The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance, Co-operation which needs consideration is as a commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional co-operation is like adulterated cement which does not bind.
A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.
Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.
Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.
The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.
Cowards can never be moral.
I believe it to be perfectly possible for an individual to adopt the way of life of the future. . . without having to wait for others to do so.
Hinduism insists on the brotherhood of not only all mankind but of all that lives.
I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God, but, at the same time, where the ultimate goal is the search of truth, on matter how a man's plans are frustrated the issue is never injurious and often better than anticipated.
Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking.
The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork.
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.