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
Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him.
Swadeshism is not a cult of hatred. It is a doctrine of selfless service that has its roots in the purest ahimsa, i.e. love.
I must not serve a distant neighbour at the expense of the nearest.
Even swadeshi, like any other good thing, can be ridden to death if it is made a fetish.
Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.
Unless we are able to evolve a spirit of mutual tolerance for diametrically opposite views, non co-operation is an impossibility.
The taking of vows that are not feasible or that are beyond one's capacity would betray thoughtlessness and want of balance.
Yajna is not yajna if one feels it to be burdensome or annoying.
Yajna having come to us with our birth, we are debtors all our lives, and thus for ever bound to serve the universe.
Yajna is duty to be performed, or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day.
It's a big error to dream of a society where nobody needs to be good.
I like their Christ, but I don't like their Christians.
Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.
There are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed.