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
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
There can be in the eyes of God no distinction between man and man, even as there is no distinction between animal and animal.
The nonviolent man automatically becomes a servant of God.
That which impels man to do the right thing is God.
Surely, conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows His creatures' hearts.
Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan.
A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists.
A man of God never strives after untruth and therefore he can never lose hope.
A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be "temperate and furious" at the same time.
When a man wants to make up with his Maker, he does not consult a third party.
When a man fasts, it is not the gallons of water he drinks that sustains him, but God.
The man who fears man falls from the estate of man. Fear God alone.
The man who eats to live, who is friends with the five powers - earth, water, ether, sun and air - who is a servant of God, the Creator of all these, ought not to fall ill.
No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa.