Mahatma Gandhi

Political Leader

Mahatma Gandhi was a leader in India's struggle for independence, known for his philosophy of nonviolent resistance and commitment to truth.

Born
October 2, 1869
Died
January 30, 1948
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"All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place."

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"If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?"

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"Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world."

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"Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin."

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"Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration."

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"It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth."

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"Man, through the cow, is enjoined to realize his identity with all that lives."

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"A man of truth must ever be confident, if he has also equal need to be diffident."

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"That which makes man the mere plaything of fate is God."

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"Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence."

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"A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution."

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"I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds."

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"If Euclid's point, though incapable of being drawn by any human agency, has an imperishable value, my picture has its own for mankind to live."

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"It is my firm faith that man is by nature going higher."

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"The Swaraj of my dream is the poor man's Swaraj."

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"It is for you and me to show that no vice is inherent in man."

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"No man could look upon another as his enemy, unless he first became his own enemy."

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"Men to be men must be able to trust their womenfolk, even as the latter are compelled to trust them."

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