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
If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.
Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.
My life is an indivisible whole, and all my activities run into one another and they have their rise in my insatiable love of mankind
One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doingwrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.
A weak man is just an accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
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.
God is certainly one. He has no second. He is unfathomable, unknowable and unknown to the vast majority of mankind.
If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?
Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration.
The woman has circumvented man in a variety of ways in her unconsciously subtle ways, as the man has vainly and equally consciously struggled to thwart the woman in gaining ascendancy over him.
Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.
That which is inherent in man is his virtue.
That which makes man the mere plaything of fate is God.
Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence.