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
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.
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.
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.
Men should do their actual living and working in communities small enough to permit of genuine self-government and the assumption of personal responsibilities, federated into larger units in such a way that the temptation to abuse great power should not arise.
It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint
Love is the humblest yet the most powerful force that the human being has.
If you don't ask, you don't get it
To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.
Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love.
Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind.
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.