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
Love, otherwise ahimsa, sustains this planet of ours.
It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission.
The votary of ahimsa has only one fear, that is, of God.
The alphabet of ahimsa is best learnt in domestic school and I can say from experience that if we secure success there, we are sure to do so everywhere else.
Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them.
What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence?
Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.
Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. Then alone it becomes irresistible.
Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.
Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.
The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.
The path of Truth is as narrow as it is straight. Even so is that of ahimsa.
The greater the realization of truth and ahimsa, the greater the illumination.
Ahimsa can be practiced only towards those that are inferior to you in every way.