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
To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.
True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most.
Politics bereft of religion is absolute dirt, ever to be shunned.
Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to the heart.
Belief in one God is the cornerstone of all religions.
If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.
Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.
The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose.
It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height of irreligion.
In the name of religion, we force widowhood upon our three lakh girl-widows who could not understand the import of the marriage ceremony.
We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of the girl-widow.
To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.
My religion teaches me that I should, by my personal conduct, instill into the minds of those who might hold different views the conviction that cow killing is a sin.
My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.