Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Koran says that there can be no heaven for one who sheds the blood of an innocent neighbour. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence. — 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 dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Let the Jews who claim to be the chosen race prove their title by choosing the way of non-violence for vindicating their… — 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
I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. A suspicious man is lost to himself and the eworld… Suspicion is… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says… — 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
With every true friendship we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests. Thought by thought… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war]… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Naked violence repels like the naked skeleton shorn of flesh, blood and the velvety skin. — 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
![“In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war] to go on. My non-violence seems almost impotent. But the answer comes at the end of the daily quarrel that neither God nor non-violence is impotent. Impotence is in men. I must try on without…” quote by Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7ef/mahatma-gandhi-23_answers_in-the-secret-of-my-heart-i-am-in-perpet_2985375.jpg)
