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
The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.
The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.
Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief.
What can be richer and more fruitful than a greater fulfillment of the vow of nonviolence in thought, word and deed or the spread of that spirit?
Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.
You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.
There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.
The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.
Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.
Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute.
Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle.
Nonviolence to be worth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces.
Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to.
Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.