Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948), also known as Mahatma Gandhi, was born in Porbandar in the present day state of Gujarat in India on October 2, 1869. He was raised in a very conservative family that had affiliations with the ruling family of Kathiawad. He was educated in law at University College, London. In 1891, after having been admitted to the British bar, Gandhi returned to India and attempted to establish a law practice in Bombay, without much success. Two years later an Indian Read More...
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.- Mohandas Gandhi
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
You do not have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Where there is love there is life.
Where love is, there God is also.
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
What is true of the individual will be to-morrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
We must become the change we want to see in the world.
