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
Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.
Ahimsa must express itself through acts of selfless service of the masses.
Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. Then alone it becomes irresistible.
Ahimsa magnifies one's own defects, and minimizes those of the opponent. It regards the mole in one's own eye as a beam and the beam in the opponent's eye as a mole.
Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.
Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.
The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.
The path of Truth is as narrow as it is straight. Even so is that of ahimsa.
The greater the realization of truth and ahimsa, the greater the illumination.
Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.
Ahimsa can be practiced only towards those that are inferior to you in every way.
Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any.
The principle of ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, by hatred, by wishing ill to anybody.
Truth and ahimsa will never be destroyed.