Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Born October 2, 1869 · Died 30 January, 1948

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, known as Mahatma Gandhi, was a pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement.

Quotes

“In reality there are as many religions as there are individuals.... Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads, so long as we reach the same goal. Wherein is the cause for quarreling?”
Hind Swaraj
“I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.”
1920s, p. 252
“Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
1920s, p. 105
“It is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.”
An Autobiography, p. 3
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
1930s

Books by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in order

Books by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in the order they were published, from Speeches and Writings of M.K. Gandhi (1918) to Peace (2007).

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Leo TolstoyHis book The Kingdom of God Is Within You shaped Gandhi's thinking on nonviolence and religious ethics, and the two corresponded.
Henry David ThoreauHis essay Civil Disobedience is an early statement of nonviolent refusal to obey unjust laws, which Gandhi read and admired.
John RuskinUnto This Last, a critique of market economics, influenced Gandhi's ideas about labor, work, and economic justice.
Martin Luther King Jr.He drew on Gandhi's methods in the American civil rights movement and wrote directly about nonviolent resistance.
B. R. AmbedkarHis Annihilation of Caste and his disputes with Gandhi offer the strongest critical counterpoint on caste and Dalit rights.
Rabindranath TagoreA contemporary and friend who wrote poetry, essays, and novels on nationalism and modernity, and who publicly disagreed with Gandhi on several points.