187 Famous Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
10/2/1869 - 1/30/1948
Also Known As:
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Gandhi
Gandhiji
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About Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism in British-ruled India. Employing non-violent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for non-violence, civil rights and freedom across the world.
The son of a senior government official, Gandhi was born and raised in a Hindu Bania community in coastal Gujarat, and trained in law in London. Gandhi became famous by fighting for the civil rights of Muslim and Hindu Indians in South Africa, using new techniques of non-violent civil disobedience that he developed. Returning to India in 1915, he set about organising peasants to protest excessive land-taxes. A lifelong opponent of "communalism" he reached out widely to all religious groups. He became a leader of Muslims protesting the declining status of the Caliphate. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, increasing economic self-reliance, and above all for achieving Swaraj—the independence of India from British domination.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Violence
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Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other.
Birth
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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
Education
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Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.
Politics
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Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself
Joy
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Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.
Mankind
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