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
I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.
High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.
Nonviolence succeeds only when we have a real living faith in God.
Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.
Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored.
For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love.
God's grace and revelation are the monopoly of no race or nation.
The truth is that God is the force. He is the essence of life. He is pure and undefiled consciousness. He is eternal.
Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something, is to become one with God.
Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth.
My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth.
Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart.
We must always seek to ally ourselves with that part of the enemy that knows what is right.
He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. A suspicious man is lost to himself and the eworld.... Suspicion is of the brood of violence. Non-violence cannot but trust...