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
The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to the laws laid down for him.
Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.
The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up.
Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.
If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.
No police officer could compel a satyagrahi to give evidence against a person who has confessed to him. A satyagrahi would never be guilty of a betrayal of trust.
A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.
There must be power in the word of a satyagraha general, not the power that the possession of limitless arms gives, but the power that purifies life which strict vigilance and a ceaseless application produce.
My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.
The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions.
Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.
The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.
It is the duty of a non-co-operator to preach disaffection towards the existing order of things. Non-co-operators are but giving disciplined expression to a nation's outraged feelings.
I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial.