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
If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.
Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.
The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.
God has no religion.
Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the wrong committed but by the right conduct.
Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.
No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.
To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.
True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most.
Politics bereft of religion is absolute dirt, ever to be shunned.
Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to the heart.
Belief in one God is the cornerstone of all religions.
If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.
Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.