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
Seek ye first the Charkha and its concomitants and everything else will be added unto you.
Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them.
There is no doubt that our last state will be worse than our first, if we surrender our reason into somebody's keeping.
A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.
It is necessary first to purify the drunken and dissolute worshippers in charge of some of these temples.
Reasoned and willing obedience to the laws of the State is the first lesson in non-co-operation.
No man could look upon another as his enemy, unless he first became his own enemy.
The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.
Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.
Education without courage is like a wax statue - beautiful to look at but bound to melt at the first touch of a hot stuff.
Truth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you.
The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness.
Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.
First they ignore you, then they denounce you, and then they say that they knew what you were saying all the time.