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
Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog from a cow.
The field of research in the doctrine of civil resistance is necessarily limited, as the occasions for civil resistance in a man's life must not be frequent.
We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive.
Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.
He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a level lower than that of beasts.
All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place.
If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?
Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.
Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.
Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin.
Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration.
The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.
It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth.
The woman has circumvented man in a variety of ways in her unconsciously subtle ways, as the man has vainly and equally consciously struggled to thwart the woman in gaining ascendancy over him.