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
Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a sin with every devout Hindu.
The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.
Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.
Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller.
Nationalism, like virtue, has its own reward.
A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.
That which is inherent in man is his virtue.
Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it.
Forgiveness is the virtue of the brave.
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
Satisfaction lies in the effort not the attainment. Full effort is full victory.