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 refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.
Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.
Violence is the weapon of weak, non-violence that of the strong.
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.
God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.
God took and needed no personal service. He served His creatures without demanding any service for Himself in return.
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.