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
What do I think of Western civilisation? I think it would be a very good idea.
In the East, as in the West, newspapers are fast becoming people's Bible, Koran, Zend-Avesta and Gita all rolled into one.
Though we are politically free, we are hardly free from the subtle domination of the West.
The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.
The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West.
The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick.
Drink is not a fashion in India, as it is in the West.
I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.
God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.
I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity.
Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind.
An eye for an eye and everyone shall be blind