Nonviolence Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi · Page 5

My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Since the propagation of nonviolence is the mission of my life, I must pursue it in all weathers.

— Mahatma Gandhi

History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is an attribute of the Almighty whose ways of fulfilling Himself are inscrutable.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and…

— Mahatma Gandhi

A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

My faith in truth and nonviolence is ever growing, and as I am ever trying to follow them in my life, I…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A rabbit that runs away from the bull-terrier is not particularly non-violent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There can be no nonviolence offered by the militarily strong.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is an active force of the highest order. It is soul force or the power of the godhead within us.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The man or the woman who can display the nonviolence of the brave can easily stand against as external invasion.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.

— Mahatma Gandhi

To one who reads the spirit of the Gita, it teaches the secret of nonviolence, the secret of realizing self through the…

— Mahatma Gandhi