Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it. — 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
By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength. — 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
Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for… — 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
The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has… — 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
Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice. — 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
Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you. — 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
Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We no longer have a choice between violence and non-violence. The choice of today stands between nonviolence or non-existence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I have an implicit faith ... that mankind can only be saved through non-violence, which is the central teaching of the Bible,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If India won her freedom through truth and non-violence, India would not only point the way to all the exploited Asiatic nations,… — 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
If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I cannot teach you violence,as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads… — 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
If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another, we will understand why there is so much physical violence… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament. — 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
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
Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Complete independence through truth and non-violence means the independence of every unit, be it the humblest of the nation, without distinction of… — 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
“Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary." ( Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13 , 3 May 1919)” — 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
