One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The mundane use of the Gayatri, its repetition for healing the sick, illustrates the meaning we have given to prayer. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going… — 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
Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my finger into the jaws of a snake, but the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society. — 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
A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The singular secret of khaddar lies in its saleability in the place of its production and use by the manufacturers themselves. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Love requires that true education should be easily accessible to all and should be of use to every villager in this daily… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
... we have to learn to use that force (love) among all that lives, and in the use of it consists our… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
That atomic energy though harnessed by American scientists and army men for destructive purposes may be utilised by other scientists for humanitarian… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Had we adopted non-violence as the weapon of the strong, because we realised that it was more effective than any other weapon,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Far better than emasculation would be the bravery of those who use physical force. Far better than cowardice would be meeting one's… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically expedient, and have therefore always discountenanced its use even from… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary… — 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
