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
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
God gifted man with intellect so that he might know his Maker. Man abused it so that he might forget his Maker.
Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.
To double your successes, you might have to double your failure rate.
Let the villages of the future live in our imagination, so that we might one day come to live in them!
They might kill me but they cannot kill Gandhism. If truth can be killed, Gandhism can be killed.
War knows no law except that of might.
Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief.
The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish.
Disorder and violence are, in fact, things that might check the pace of India's progress.
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.
An eye for an eye and everyone shall be blind