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 bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs.
For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from.
The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.
Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.
None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.
To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.
The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up.
It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed.
The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.
By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls.
To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given up.
The state represents violence in a concentrated and organize form.
We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.
Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.