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
No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa.
By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.
My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.
A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within.
Men to be men must be able to trust their womenfolk, even as the latter are compelled to trust them.
Unless our hands go hand in hand with our heads, we will be able to do nothing whatsoever.
We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.
It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.
Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.
To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind.