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 refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.
If we are true servants of the masses, we would take pride in spinning for their sake.
I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment.
Renunciation made for the sake of service is an ineffable joy of which none can deprive anyone, because that nectar springs from within and sustains life.
Journalism should never be prostituted for selfish ends or for the sake of merely earning a livelihood or, worse still, for amassing money.
You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote.
All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the sake of expediency.
My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.
I would not sell the vital interests of the untouchables for the sake of winning the freedom of India.
The cause is everything. Those even who are dearest to us must be shunted for the sake of the cause.
That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind.