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 not a matter of mere dietetics: it transcends it.
Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.
Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.
Every affliction has its own rich lesson to teach, if we would learn it.
I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of them are without work and die of hunger on the streets. I want to secure employment and livelihood not only to part of the human race, but for all. I will not have the enrichment of a few at the expense of the community. At present the machine is helping a small minority to live on the exploitation of the masses. The motive force of this minority is not humanity or love of their kind, but greed and avarice.
Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.
Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing.
Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.
To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.
A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.
An institution that suffers from a plethora of leaders is surely in a bad way.
I am a Christian and a Hindu and a Muslim and a Jew.
Peace is the state where love abides and seeks to share itself.
Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.