Nonviolence 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 cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your… — 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
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
The propagation of truth and nonviolence can be done less by books than by actually living on those principles. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What can be richer and more fruitful than a greater fulfillment of the vow of nonviolence in thought, word and deed or… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Unless we learn the lesson of nonviolence fully, we shall never do away with the deadly feuds which have been the curse… — 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
The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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
Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Unexampled bravery, born of nonviolence, coupled with strict honesty shown by a fair number of Muslims, is sure to infect the whole… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
For a nonviolent struggle, there is no age limit. The blind, the maimed and the bed-ridden may serve, and not only men… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Just as there are signs by which you can recognize violence with the naked eye, so is the spinning wheel to me… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker. — 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
The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West. — 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
In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is an active force of the highest order. It is soul force or the power of the godhead within us. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The man or the woman who can display the nonviolence of the brave can easily stand against as external invasion. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My faith in truth and nonviolence is ever growing, and as I am ever trying to follow them in my life, I… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Active nonviolence of the brave puts to flight thieves, dacoits, murderers, and prepares an army of volunteers ready to sacrifice themselves in… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To one who reads the spirit of the Gita, it teaches the secret of nonviolence, the secret of realizing self through the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others. — 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
