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
It is the faith and perseverance and single-mindedness with which Hitler has perfected his weapons of destruction that commands my admiration.
The Truth is far more powerful than any weapon of mass destruction.
It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed.
Satyagraha is a purely spiritual weapon.
I have no weapon but nonviolence.
Even as satyagraha is a weapon unique of its kind and not one of the ordinary weapons used by people, so is Khadi, a unique article of commerce which will not, cannot, succeed on terms common to other articles.
Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored.
Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.
I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.
A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that can match it.
It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint
If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone.
Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.
My greatest weapon is mute prayer.