Nonviolence Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi · Page 5

Nonviolence to be worth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We no longer have a choice between violence and non-violence. The choice of today stands between nonviolence or non-existence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has…

— Mahatma Gandhi

When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My nonviolence is made of stern stuff. It is firmer than the firmest metal known to scientists.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence or soul force does not need physical aids for its propagation of effect.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A nonviolent person's life is always at the disposal of him who would take it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolent action without the co-operation of the heart and the head cannot produce the intended result.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The patriotic spirit demands loyal and strict adherence to nonviolence and truth.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is much more difficult to live for nonviolence than to die for it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Without real nonviolence, there would be perfect anarchy.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for…

— Mahatma Gandhi

If all were nonviolent, there would be no anarchy and there would be no question of anybody being armed for meeting aggression…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.

— Mahatma Gandhi