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
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.
The good man is the friend of all living things.
Not to believe in the possibility of permanent peace is to disbelieve in the Godliness of human nature.
Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.
Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.
The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God.
Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.
I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.
To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.
I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding