Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do believe that ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth. — 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
It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond… — 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
Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said,… — 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
For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us we would have become extinct long ago.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Strictly speaking, no activity and no industry is possible without a certain amount of violence, no matter how little. Even the very… — 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
Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence. — 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
It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Armed conspiracies against something satanic is like matching Satans against Satan. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Disorder and violence are, in fact, things that might check the pace of India's progress. — 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
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