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
In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place.
You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees.
I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality
You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.
In order to get meat, we have to kill. And we are certainly not entitled to any other milk except the mother's milk in our infancy.
Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day.
The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to the laws laid down for him.
Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.
I have mentally become a woman in order to steal into her heart.
I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.
Prayer is the only means of bringing about orderliness and peace and repose in our daily acts.
Those who have their hands dyed deep in blood cannot build a nonviolent order for the world.
I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses.
Nonviolence is an active force of the highest order. It is soul force or the power of the godhead within us.