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 world is weary of hate. We see the fatigue overcoming the Western nations.
A successful search for truth means complete deliverance from the dual throng, such as of love and hate, happiness and misery.
My personal religion peremptorily forbids me to hate anybody.
The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him.
Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light.
The hater hates not for the sake of hatred but because he wants to drive away from his country the hated being or beings.
One may detest the wickedness of a brother without hating him.
It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.
It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us we would have become extinct long ago. And yet, the tragedy of it is that the so-called civilised men and nations conduct themselves as if the basis of society was violence.
Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be. Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practised, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.
Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Non-violence always suffers, cowardice would always inflict suffering. Perfect non-violence is the highest bravery. Non-violent conduct is never demoralising; cowardice always is.
If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed � but hate these things in yourself, not in another.
Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.
I would rather drown myself in the waters of the Sabarmati than harbour hate or animosity in my heart.