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
A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much.
Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world.
Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory, even as the body is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting.
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.
There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.
God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.
There is no road towards peace; peace is the road
Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns.
It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.
Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men.
The instruments for the quest for Truth are as simple as they are difficult.
It is the absolute right of India to misgovern herself.