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
Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.
There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint.
I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.
What do I think of Western civilisation? I think it would be a very good idea.
There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.
When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator
I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.
That action alone is just that does not harm either party to a dispute
Justice will come when it is deserved by our being and feeling strong.
Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one's own
Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.
I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'