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
Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan.
In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil.
He who has a living faith in God will not do evil deeds with name of God on his lips.
It is my conviction that the root of evil is the want of a living God.
I call God long-suffering and patient precisely because He permits evil in the world. I know that He has no evil in Him and yet if there is evil, He is the author of it and yet untouched by it.
My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action.
The principle of ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, by hatred, by wishing ill to anybody.
Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees.
Evil is, good or truth misplaced.
Non-cooperatio n with evil is a sacred duty.
Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of nonresistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in selfsuffering.
It is as much our obligation not to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good