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
Service is not possible unless it is rooted in love orahimsa.
Unless all the discoveries that you make have the welfare of the poor as the end in view, all your workshops will be really no better than Satan's workshops.
A fast to be true must be accompanied by a readiness to receive pure thoughts and determination to resist all Satan's temptations.
Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him.
The State is the sum total of the sacrifice, on its behalf, of its members.
The only things that separates us from the brute, with which we have so much in common, is the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong.
Satan's snares are mostly subtly laid and are the most tempting when the dividing line between right and wrong is so thin as to be imperceptible.
The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right.
Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.
If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos.
There being no absolute and universal standard of right, terrorism must be held to be wrong in every case.
Rights of true citizenship accrue only to those who serve the State to which they belong.
Desirelessness or renunciation does not come for the mere talking about it.
An ideal sanctified by the sacrifices of such master spirits as Lenin cannot go in vain, the noble example of their renunciation will be emblazoned for ever and quicken and purify the ideal as time passes.