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
God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.
I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.
Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one's own
Whether one or many, I must declare my faith that it is better for India to discard violence altogether even for defending her borders
I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.
Those who are lacking in bhakti (devotion), lacking in faith, are ill qualified to interpret the scriptures.
Legal imposition avoids the necessity of honour or good faith.
Khaddar is an activity that can absorb all the time of all available men and women and grown-up children, if they have faith.
He who would in his own person test the fact of God's presence can do so by a living faith.
Decency requires that when a programme is approved by the majority, all should carry it out faithfully.
Can a general fight on the strength of soldiers, who, he knows, have no faith in him?
What faith can you place in a general or a soldier who lacks resolution and determination, who says, 'I shall keep guard as long as I can'?
All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error.
Without a belief in my programme and without an acceptance of my condition, you will ruin me, ruin yourselves and ruin the cause.