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
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.
The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that, too, unconditional assistance.
Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence.
I am conscious of my own limitations. That consciousness is my only strength.
Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.
I shall never know God if I do not wrestle with and against evil, even at the cost of life itself.