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
To one who reads the spirit of the Gita, it teaches the secret of nonviolence, the secret of realizing self through the physical body.
My Hinduism teaches me to respect all religions. In this lies the secret of Ramarajya.
I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause.
Free, open love I have looked upon as dog's love. Secret love is, besides, cowardly.
The secret of a happy life lies in renunciation. Renunciation is life.
The singular secret of khaddar lies in its saleability in the place of its production and use by the manufacturers themselves.
Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.
I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.
This campaign of non-cooperation has no reference to diplomacy, secret or open. The only diplomacy it admits of is the statement and pursuance of truth at any cost.
You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.
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.
An eye for an eye and everyone shall be blind