There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We become Godlike to the extent we realize nonviolence, but we can never become wholly God. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To practice nonviolence in mundane matters is to know its true value. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts. — 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
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
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
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
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
My nonviolence demands universal love, and you are not a small part of it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Ours has not been unadulterated nonviolence in thought, word and deed. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If my nonviolence is to be contagious and infectious, I must acquire greater control over my thoughts. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built. — 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
Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence. — 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
Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Since the propagation of nonviolence is the mission of my life, I must pursue it in all weathers. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief. — 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
A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is an attribute of the Almighty whose ways of fulfilling Himself are inscrutable. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force. — 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
