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.
Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.
To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.
The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.
Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.
He is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does.
God cannot be realized through intellect.
May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body.
I learnt from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed.
Whether one or many, I must declare my faith that it is better for India to discard violence altogether even for defending her borders
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me.
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within
There go my people, I must hurry to catch up with them for I am their leader.
Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.