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
Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.
A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.
I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation.
Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.
The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.
Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.
Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?
This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.
Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.
Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'
My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization.
The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.
You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.
Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak.