I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is my conviction that nothing enduring can be built on violence. The only safe way to overcome an enemy is to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The spirit of non-violence necessarily leads to humility. Non-violence means reliance on God, the rock of ages. If we would seek his… — 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
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
However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If there is violence, it will certainly be crushed because violence can only end in a disgraceful rout. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If one has affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence. — 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
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
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive. — 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
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
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
Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than… — 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
