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
Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence
A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.
Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind.
I'm a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours.
I learnt from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed.
I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics.
The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.
Nonviolent non-co-operation is the only alternative to anarchy and worse.
If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!
Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather.
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.