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
Non-violence which is a quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
Non-violence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it
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?
There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint.
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
To put up with. . . distortions and to stick to one's guns come what may -- this is the. . . gift of leadership.
I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.