Mahatma Quotes
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In a sense, Sheikh Mujib is a greater leader than George Washington, Mahatma Gandhi and De Valera.
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About Mahatma Gandhi: Great in taking decisions, great in executing them, Mahatma Gandhi was incomparably great in the last stand which he made on behalf of his country. He is undoubtedly one of the greatest men the world has ever seen. The world hath need of him, and if he is mocked and jeered at by “the people of importance,” “the people with a stake in this country,” – the Scribes and Pharisees of the days of Christ – he will be gratefully remembered, now and always, by a nation which he led from victory to victory.
chittaranjan das— Source: Collected Works of Deshbandhu.
After a temporary eclipse, in 16th century, Sher Shah Suri returned the city to its former glory and established the present Patna. After the decline of the Mughals , the British too found Patna a convenient regional capital and built a modern extension to this ancient city and called it Bankipore. It was in Gandhi Maidan in this area, that Mahatma Gandhi held his prayer meetings.
— Bihar State Tourism Development Corporation, in Destinations :: Patna (http://bstdc.bih.nic.in/Patna.htm), National Information Center.
The people of Assam made remarkable contributions at every stage of the freedom movement since 1920 to 1947. The visit of Mahatma Gandhi to the State in 1921 gave fillip to the freedom movement which had already gathered momentum in both valleys of Assam.
— Press Information Bureau, in Freedom Struggle In Assam, National Informatics Center
I believe Mahatma Gandhi was a futurist in the best sense of the word. He foresaw trends and had the confidence to record his predictions and prescriptions in bold and stark terms. He did so, not in a stray article or opinion piece, but over a life time of speeches, writings – and living – beginning with Hind Swaraj, the remarkable he started writing in 1909 and completed in 1910.
— Niranjan Ramakrishnan, in: Reading Gandhi in the Twenty-First Century, Palgrave Macmillan, 01-Feb-2013, p.2
Mahatma Gandhi 1869 - 1948
— Translated "O, lord!", supposed last words after being shot. As he was cremated, the epitaph appears on his samadhi, a black marble platform that marks the site of his cremation.
Jainism had a major influence in developing a system of doctrine and ethics that has a major impact on all aspects of Indian culture in all ages; from Upanishads to Mahatma Gandhi.
— In Faith & Philosophy of Jainism", p.12
A strange contradiction the Mahatma was...there was a kind of androgynous , charismatic vitality that lurked within him , a dangerously effeminate quality that could provoke high anxiety .
— Frederick B. Fischer, in “That Strange Little Brown Man quoted” in Sean Scalmer Gandhi in the West: The Mahatma and the Rise of Radical Protest, Cambridge University Press, 6 January 2011, p.22
