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
Armed conspiracies against something satanic is like matching Satans against Satan.
A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses.
If there is violence, it will certainly be crushed because violence can only end in a disgraceful rout.
Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.
Naked violence repels like the naked skeleton shorn of flesh, blood and the velvety skin.
Our aim is not to do things by violence to opponents.
Violence always thrived on counter violence.
Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.
Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.
Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.
What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.
Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.
I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.
I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.