Armed conspiracies against something satanic is like matching Satans against Satan. — 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
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
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
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
Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain. — 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
Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity...If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
... when all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for it breach is more so. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence. — 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
H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls. — 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
