Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi was born on the 2nd of October, 1869 in Porbandar, Gujarat,
India. He died on the 30th of January, 1948 in New Delhi, India.
Gandhi was a great political and spiritual leader for India, when India
was still under the rule of the British Empire.
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Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
- A non-violent soldier of freedom will covet nothing for himself, he
fights only for the freedom of his country.
- In the democracy
which I have envisaged, a democracy established by non-violence, there
will be equal freedom for all.
- At a time when
I may have to launch the biggest struggle of my life, I may not harbour
hatred against anybody.
- Even if my eyes
close before there is freedom, non-violence will not end.
- By no canon of
ethics or war, therefore, can Palestine be given to the Jews as a result
of the War.
- Have I not repeatedly
said that active non-violence is unadulterated love.
- Sometimes it is
refreshing to see ourselves as others see us.
- Nonviolence is
the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
- It is only when
the community proves its manliness that we shall be able to live like
- The seven blunders
that human society commits and cause all the violence: wealth without
work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce
without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice,
and politics without principles.
- Im a lover
of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply
want to please my own conscience, which is God.
- If nonviolence
is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more
effective appeal to the heart than woman?
- Intellectual attempts
are more or less failures, as a rational explanation cannot give you
the faith in a living God.
- We are less than
atoms, I say, because the atom obeys the law of its being, whereas we
in the insolence of our ignorance deny the law of nature.
- It is unwise to
be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the
strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
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