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
Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help…
Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
With my meager knowledge of my own religion I do not want to belong to any religious body
Decency and tolerance, to be of any value, must be capable of withstanding the severest strain.
When you make yourself into zero, your power becomes invincible.
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth and He tries you through and through.
My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.
There is enough for the need of everyone in this world, but not for the greed of everyone.
If it weren't for Christians, I'd be a Christian.
Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved, or because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only hinders progress.
it's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone