Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If all were nonviolent, there would be no anarchy and there would be no question of anybody being armed for meeting aggression… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Active nonviolence is necessary for those who will offer civil disobedience but the will and proper training are enough for the people… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We no longer have a choice between violence and non-violence. The choice of today stands between nonviolence or non-existence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The force of nonviolence is infinitely more wonderful and subtle than the material forces of nature, like electricity. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We may never be strong enough to be entirely non-violent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep non-violence as our… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I cannot teach you violence,as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater courage? Without her, man would not be. If nonviolence is to be the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of its shortage. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Those who are truthful, nonviolent and brave do not cease to be so because of the stupidity of their leader. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
An awakened people who rely upon their nonviolent strength are independent in the face of any conceivable combination of the armed powers. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A nonviolent warrior knows no leaving the battle. He rushes into the mouth of himsa, never even once harbouring an evil thought. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence which to me is the glory of Hinduism, has been sought to be explained away by our people as being meant… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness. — 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
