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
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
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
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
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
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
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
If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces. — 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
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
Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society. — 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
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
A rabbit that runs away from the bull-terrier is not particularly non-violent. — 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