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
Armed conspiracies against something satanic is like matching Satans against Satan. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth. — 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
The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Humankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter - hatred only increases… — 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
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
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
He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. A suspicious man is lost to himself and the eworld… Suspicion is… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of… — 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
I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son… — 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
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence… — 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
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
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
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
For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs. — 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 difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. — 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
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
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
Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
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
“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
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
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention." — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
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