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 British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers.
A votary of ahimsa cannot subscribe to the utilitarian formula (of the greatest good of the greatest number). He will strive for the greatest good of all and die in the attempt to realize that ideal.
Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world.
A certain degree of physical harmony and comfort is necessary, but above a certain level it becomes a hindrance instead of a help. Therefore the ideal of creating an unlimited number of wants and satisfying them seems to be a delusion and a snare.
When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.
A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets.
Unexampled bravery, born of nonviolence, coupled with strict honesty shown by a fair number of Muslims, is sure to infect the whole of India.
India has the right, if she only knew, of becoming the predominant partner by reason of her numbers, geographical position and culture inherited for ages.
We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than any other evil. ...Disease increases in proportion to the increase to the number of doctors in a place.
Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.
Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.
Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid. The Valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone.
Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place.
Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding