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
Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them.
There is an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything.
Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.
The English peace is the peace of the grave.
Not to believe in the possibility of permanent peace is to disbelieve in the Godliness of human nature.
Without prayer there is no inward peace.
Peace is unattained by part performance of conditions, even as a chemical combination is impossible without complete fulfillment of the conditions of attainment thereof.
Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship.
The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint.
Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his individual liberty has to be curtailed at every step.
No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them.
A rose will smell as sweet by any other name, but it must be the rose of liberty that I want and not the artificial product.
Liberty never meant the license to do anything at will.
Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.