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 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.
I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.
The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
The Truth is far more powerful than any weapon of mass destruction.
How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.
The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized.
Steam becomes a mighty power only when it allows itself to be imprisoned in a strong little reservoir, produces tremendous motion and carries huge weights by permitting itself a tiny and measured outlet.
No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.
Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.
Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them.
There is an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything.
Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.
We must always seek to ally ourselves with that part of the enemy that knows what is right.
The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God or man.