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
Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground. You trample upon things. When a whole society moves forward, this trampling is on a much bigger scale; and each thing that you disturb, each vested interest which you want to remove, stands as an obstacle.
The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our fore fathers but on loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us.
Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.
The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.
In Gujarat Hitler's life and works have been glorified in school textbooks which is a very serious matter,
The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats' teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice
What is true is that honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune
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.
An eye for an eye and everyone shall be blind
To put up with. . . distortions and to stick to one's guns come what may -- this is the. . . gift of leadership.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Be the change that you want to see in the world.