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
True paurusha, true bravery, consists in driving out the brute in us.
Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam.
Bravery on the battlefield is impossible for us. Bravery of the soul still remains open to us.
Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.
Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?
A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization.
I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.
Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.
The art of producing good music from a cultivated voice can be achieved by many, but the art of producing that music from the harmony of a pure life is achieved very rarely.
True art must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors.
All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self.
Art to be art must soothe.
It is indeed a million times better to appear untrue before the world than to be untrue to ourselves.
The world cannot be successfully fooled for all time.