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1869–1948 India
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule, and to later inspire movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahātmā (Sanskrit: "great-souled", "venerable"), first applied to him in 1914 in South Africa, is now used throughout the world.
India Activists Journalists Lawyers Memoirists Also known as: Gandhi, Gandhi, Mahatma, Mahatma Ghandi, Mohandas Gandhi, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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"If an entire nation of 300 millions took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts."
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need but not for every man's greed.
The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.
Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi (2006)
Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence but none to self-restraint, and let us daily progress in that direction.
"It has always been easier to destroy than to create."
"Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man."
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self sustained.
Young India 1924-1926 (1927)
The Allah of Islam is the same as the God of Christians and the Ishwara of Hindus.
Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.
Hind Swaraj (1909)
The only thing lawful is non-violence. Violence can never be lawful in the sense meant here, i.e., not according to man-made laws, but according to the laws made by Nature for man.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
It would be a great things, a brave thing, for the Hindus to achieve act of self-denial.
Hinduism insists on the brotherhood of not only all mankind but of all that lives.
Under democracy individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.
It is not possible to make a person or society non-violent by compulsion.
Victory won by violence is tantamount to defeat, for it is momentary.
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.
I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.
Vegetarianism is one of the priceless gifts of Hinduism.
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