A rabbit that runs away from the bull-terrier is not particularly non-violent. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent. — 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 Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Boycott of foreign cloth through picketing may easily be violent; through the use of khadi it is most natural and absolutely nonviolent. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I contend that non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for the pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We find the general work of mankind is being carried on from day to day by the mass of people acting in… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate.… — 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
The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If I were asked to define the Hindu creed, I should simply say: Search after truth through non-violent means. A man may… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is an ever-growing belief with me that truth cannot be found by violent means. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If I were asked to define the Hindu creed, I should simply say: search after Truth through non-violent means. Hinduism is a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results. — 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
