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
Violent means will give violent freedom.
It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means.
Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.
Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.
A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.
Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society.
The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.
Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse.
Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.
I contend that non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for the pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness.
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.
Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.