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
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
An act of Kindness is better than a thousand heads bowed in prayer.
The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.
It is nature's kindness that we do not remember past births. Life would be a burden if we carried such a tremendous load of memories.
Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.
There are subjects where reason cannot take us far and we have to accept things on faith. Faith then does not contradict reason but transcends it. Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.
What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated?
All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.
The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
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.