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
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
It took Britain half the resources of the planet to achieve its prosperity; how many planets will a country like India require?
Strictly speaking, no activity and no industry is possible without a certain amount of violence, no matter how little. Even the very process of living is impossible without a certain amount of violence. What we have to do is to minimize it to the greatest extent possible.
Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.
The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.
The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.
Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence.
The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals
You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole.
Love transcends all animosity and is never partial.
If love wasn't the law of life, life would not have persisted in the midst of death.
The Law of Love, call it attraction, affinity, cohesion if you like, governs the world.
Love is the subtlest force in the world.
Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.