Ghandi movie reflection

"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

 Ghandi, a man who devoted his life to the nonviolent pursuit of justice, realized long ago that violence never solves anything. If anything, using violence against other violence only leads to additional problems and more importantly, pain. Thus in his quote above Ghandi is explaining that using violence as punishment against violence leads to nothing but loss. I hold Ghandis quote to be very true. As i have learned through my life, violence does nothing but create additional violence.  The whole movie of Ghandi elaborated on this quote very well. In the begining of the film the indians could almost never achieve victory against the british with their violence ways (because it solves nothing) but once the indians (with the guidance of ghandi) exercised nonviolent resistant against the british's violent ways they finally achieved results. 

"A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes." 

This quote is referring to the idea that the things that we think about eventually become the words we say and subsequently the actions we do. Ghandi is trying to make people realize that the things that we obsess about and spend our time thinking about eventually consume us and make us the people we are. In the movie, Ghandi's actions are dictated by his ideologies he has for how he thinks people should behave and act towards another and this is key in shaping his character. For instance, in the scene where he is seen to be deeply troubled by the pass laws in africa, he acts upon his thoughts and eventually stages a public display against the passcodes because of his thoughts on the passcode.

The movie Ghandi has taught me much about how we could treat each other. It has given me much more respect for those that choose to "turn the other cheek" when they could possibly confront the problem violently, and the quote that "when we most needed it, he offered the world a way out of madness" will stick with me forever.