If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A nonviolent person's life is always at the disposal of him who would take it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolent action without the co-operation of the heart and the head cannot produce the intended result. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence or soul force does not need physical aids for its propagation of effect. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My nonviolence is made of stern stuff. It is firmer than the firmest metal known to scientists. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence means an ocean of compassion. It means shedding from us every trace of ill will for others. It does not mean… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Enter with me into the sufferings, not only of the people of India but of the whole world. Nonviolence is a more… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention." — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
