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 alphabet of ahimsa is best learnt in domestic school and I can say from experience that if we secure success there, we are sure to do so everywhere else.
If our ahimsa is not of the brave but of the weak, and if it will bend the knee before himsa, Gandhism deserves to be destroyed.
True ahimsa should wear a smile even on a deathbed brought about by an assailant. It is only with that ahimsa that we can befriend our opponents and win their love.
Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.
All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.
Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa.
My errors have been errors of calculation and judging men, not in appreciating the true nature of truth and ahimsa or in their application.
Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them.
My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way.
My anekantavada is the result of the twin doctrines of satya and ahimsa.
One who hooks his fortune to ahimsa, the law of love, daily lessens the circle of destruction and to that extent promotes life and love.
Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realization.
What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence?
My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.