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
Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is practically impossible to disentangle and separate them.
The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.
Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.
Peace is unattained by part performance of conditions, even as a chemical combination is impossible without complete fulfillment of the conditions of attainment thereof.
Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible.
Bravery on the battlefield is impossible for us. Bravery of the soul still remains open to us.
Nonviolence is impossible without humility.
[It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their midst, not as their patrons but as their servants.
The fullest life is impossible without an immovable belief in a Living Law in obedience to which the whole universe moves.
It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.
Nothing is impossible for pure love.
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.