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
That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it.
Start changing yourself if you want to change the life around you.
If you want something done, ask. If you want something done quickly, ask, and then begin counting down from ten with no explanation.
If you want to change the world, start with yourself.
We must be the world we want to create.
To shirk taking of vows betrays indecision and want of resolution.
The taking of vows that are not feasible or that are beyond one's capacity would betray thoughtlessness and want of balance.
The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right.
There is no such thing as 'Gandhism', and I do not want to leave any sect after me.
We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.
I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation.
We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.
I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.
We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia.