Just as there are signs by which you can recognize violence with the naked eye, so is the spinning wheel to me… — 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
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
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
The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to pure democracy.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do believe that ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government,… — 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
Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Real suffering bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone. Such is the potency of suffering. And there lies the key to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed. — 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
The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully… — 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
I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race. — 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
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
Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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 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
