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
At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self-acting.
Ours has not been unadulterated nonviolence in thought, word and deed.
Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.
Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller.
Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.
In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his.
In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.
Unexampled bravery, born of nonviolence, coupled with strict honesty shown by a fair number of Muslims, is sure to infect the whole of India.
You can return blow for blow if you are not brave enough to follow the path of nonviolence.
Nonviolence to be a creed has to be all-pervasive.
Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.
Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative.
Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact.
The force of nonviolence is infinitely more wonderful and subtle than the material forces of nature, like electricity.