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
Nonviolence is an attribute of the Almighty whose ways of fulfilling Himself are inscrutable.
To me Truth is God and there is no way to find Truth except the way of nonviolence.
God's ways are more than Man's arithmetic.
God does not punish directly. His ways are inscrutable.
There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.
The turning of the charkha in a lifeless way will be like the turning of the beads of the rosary with a wandering mind turned away from God.
Let the Gita be to you a mine of diamonds, as it has been to me; let it be your constant guide and friend on life's way.
The object of the Gita appears to me to be that of showing the most excellent way to attain self-realization.
Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realization.
Ahimsa can be practiced only towards those that are inferior to you in every way.
An institution that suffers from a plethora of leaders is surely in a bad way.
The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).
I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge.
My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world.