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
The best way of losing a cause is to abuse your opponent and to trade upon his weakness.
We may attack systems. We must not attack men.
I do not believe that the spiritual law works on a field of its own. On the contrary, it expresses itself only through the ordinary activities of life. It thus affects the economic, the social and the political fields.
There are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed.
Your life is your message.
Is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater courage? Without her, man would not be. If nonviolence is to be the law of our being, the future is with women.
Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.
Eye for eye and the world will go blind.
It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means.
Everything that we do is insignificant...and...it is very important that we do it!
I like their Christ, but I don't like their Christians.
It's a big error to dream of a society where nobody needs to be good.
The greatness of the human being is not in the reincarnation of the world but in the reincarnation of ourselves.
It is nature's kindness that we do not remember past births. Life would be a burden if we carried such a tremendous load of memories.