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
Even a little of dharma saves one from many a pitfall.
Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.
Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.
Jealousy does not wait for reasons.
A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.
All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.
I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.
I would rather have India without education, if that is the price to be paid for making it dry.
Even if masses of people were to burn khadi publicly and say that it is an insane programme, I will declare that those people have gone mad.
What is true is that honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune
What is true is that honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune
Whatever one does cheerfully is good for health.
A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority
For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen.