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
God is the vital force or spirit which is all-pervading, all-embracing and, therefore, beyond human ken.
It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission.
I learned from Hussain how to be wronged and be a winner, I learnt from Hussain how to attain victory while being oppressed.
The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall always see Truth in fragment and from different points of vision.
I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.
Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.
Live simply so that others may simply live.
I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak.
God has no religion.
Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.
When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.