Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) was an ideological and political leader of India. Gandhi is also known as “Mahatma” or “Great Soul”. He used non-violent resistance and civil disobedience to stand against tyranny. Mahatma’s philosophy is also known as “Satyagraha”.
Gandhi was assassinated by Nathuram Godse, in New Delhi, in 1948. October 2, Gandhi’s birthday is celebrated as the International Day of Non-violence.
Gandhi Quotes
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.— Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Force, violence, pressure or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic.— Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Noncooperation with evil is as much a duty as cooperation with good.— Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
The state represents violence in a concentrated and organized form.— Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.— Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won’t help, but that is no excuse, you must still act.— Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.— Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.— Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.— Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
A “no” uttered from the deepest conviction is better and greater than a “yes” merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.— Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.— Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.— Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding out the true path for ourselves and fearlessly following it.— Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi