He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity...If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
An opponent is entitled to the same regard for his principles as we would expect others to have for ours. Non-violence demands… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities. — 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 is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to pure democracy.… — 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
Complete independence through truth and non-violence means the independence of every unit, be it the humblest of the nation, without distinction of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If India won her freedom through truth and non-violence, India would not only point the way to all the exploited Asiatic nations,… — 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
We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Let the Jews who claim to be the chosen race prove their title by choosing the way of non-violence for vindicating their… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must… — 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 Image
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 Image
So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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 Image
Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
