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
That which you look upon as your own you may keep only so long as the world allows you to own it.
The world is changing every moment, and is therefore unreal. It has non permanent existence.
When I see a cow, it is not an animal to eat, it is a poem of pity for me and I worship it and I shall defend its worship against the whole world.
I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.
The greatest menace to the world today is the growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism.
The whole world is like the human body with its various members. Pain in one member is felt in the whole body.
The whole world is in the throes of a new birth. Anything done for a temporary gain would be tantamount to an abortion.
The world is weary of hate. We see the fatigue overcoming the Western nations.
The world easily finds an honourable place for the magician who produces new and dazzling things.
Why should men arrogate to themselves the right to regulate female purity?
If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.
Contraceptives are an insult to womanhood.
For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage of the brute.
My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.