Non-co-operators will make a serious mistake if they seek to convert people to their creed by violence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence. — 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
Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him. — 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
Naked violence repels like the naked skeleton shorn of flesh, blood and the velvety skin. — 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
The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of… — 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 condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do,… — 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
I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the weak. I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom. — 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