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
The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.
A democrat should not rely upon the force of the arms his state could flaunt in the face of the world, but on the moral force his state could put at the disposal of the world.
A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.
Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable.
Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer.
Prayer is either petitional or, in its wider sense, inward communion.
Prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula.
Prayer is the only means of bringing about orderliness and peace and repose in our daily acts.
Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action.
A prayerful study and experience are essential for a correct interpretation of the scriptures.
True prayer is not a prelude to inaction.
Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise.
Worship or prayer is not to be performed with the lips, but with the heart.
My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time.