Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. — 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… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Koran says that there can be no heaven for one who sheds the blood of an innocent neighbour. — 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
A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it. — 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
Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence. — 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
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
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act… — 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
