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Peacebuilding Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

149 Peacebuilding quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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Nonviolence is described as stronger than the fiercest violence. Gandhi’s words link freedom to truth and justice for everyone. He says love is the only way to find true peace and that truth is the best diplomacy. He also notes that true nonviolence requires justice in every part of life.

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The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).

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I know no diplomacy save that of truth.

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Without real nonviolence, there would be perfect anarchy.

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Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed.

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I shall, of course, die with nonviolence on my lips.

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Nonviolence abhors fear and therefore, secrecy.

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My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force.

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Nonviolence is the summit of bravery.

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A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible.

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If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.

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If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field…

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The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.

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The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.

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Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.

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The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.

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The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.

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The Attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of…

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Nonviolence means an ocean of compassion. It means shedding from us every trace of ill will for others. It does not mean…

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This campaign of non-cooperation has no reference to diplomacy, secret or open. The only diplomacy it admits of is the statement and…

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Just as there are signs by which you can recognize violence with the naked eye, so is the spinning wheel to me…

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Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying…

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We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more…

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Active nonviolence of the brave puts to flight thieves, dacoits, murderers, and prepares an army of volunteers ready to sacrifice themselves in…

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My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic,…

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Enter with me into the sufferings, not only of the people of India but of the whole world. Nonviolence is a more…

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Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.

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Nonviolence to be a creed has to be all-pervasive.

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At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self-acting.

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True nonviolence is mightier than the mightiest violence.

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The science of nonviolence can alone lead one to pure democracy.

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Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances.

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Nonviolence is a quality not of the body but of the soul.

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Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills.

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Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact.

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The common factor of all religions is nonviolence.

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Nonviolence is impossible without humility.

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Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.

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I have no weapon but nonviolence.

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Perfect nonviolence is difficult. It admits to no weakness.

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The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.

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My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.