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
I have not lost the hope that the masses will refuse to bow to the Moloch of war but they will rely upon their own capacity for suffering to save their country's honour.
The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility.
When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.
People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war.
History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history.
War knows no law except that of might.
When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.
When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.
The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind.
Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.
Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.
True ahimsa lay in running into the mouth of himsa.
The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.
The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.