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
Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak.
The good man is the friend of all living things.
Prayer from the heart can achieve what nothing else can in the world.
It is pleasant that there will be no religions in heaven.
God has no religion.
The Divine Music is incessantly ringing within all of us, but the loud senses drown the delicate Music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive with our senses.
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall.. think of it, always.
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.
I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality
My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines.
My life is my message.
The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.
Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.