A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Non-co-operators will make a serious mistake if they seek to convert people to their creed by violence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Naked violence repels like the naked skeleton shorn of flesh, blood and the velvety skin. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence.… — 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
Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence… — 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
I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the weak. I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To kill these (rabid) dogs, in my opinion, amount to himsa, but I believe it to be inevitable if we are to… — 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
In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war]… — 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
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
Had we adopted non-violence as the weapon of the strong, because we realised that it was more effective than any other weapon,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
With every true friendship we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests. Thought by thought… — 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
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
Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do believe that ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs. — 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 bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence. — 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
The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever. — 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
![“In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war] to go on. My non-violence seems almost impotent. But the answer comes at the end of the daily quarrel that neither God nor non-violence is impotent. Impotence is in men. I must try on without…” quote by Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ef/mahatma-gandhi-23_answers_in-the-secret-of-my-heart-i-am-in-perpet_2985375.jpg)
