Violence Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi · Page 4

Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder?

— Mahatma Gandhi

Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Better than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.

— Mahatma Gandhi

However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence.…

— Mahatma Gandhi

An opponent is entitled to the same regard for his principles as we would expect others to have for ours. Non-violence demands…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Humankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter - hatred only increases…

— Mahatma Gandhi

With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with…

— Mahatma Gandhi

My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me…

— Mahatma Gandhi

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for it breach is more so.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness

— Mahatma Gandhi

Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The state represents violence in a concentrated and organize form.

— Mahatma Gandhi

None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Violence is the weapon of weak, non-violence that of the strong.

— Mahatma Gandhi

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence

— Mahatma Gandhi

Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi