Violence Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi · Page 4

Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

— Mahatma Gandhi

By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If there is violence, it will certainly be crushed because violence can only end in a disgraceful rout.

— Mahatma Gandhi

What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.

— Mahatma Gandhi

That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non-violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

To kill these (rabid) dogs, in my opinion, amount to himsa, but I believe it to be inevitable if we are to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence…

— Mahatma Gandhi

A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy.

— Mahatma Gandhi

To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given…

— Mahatma Gandhi

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

— Mahatma Gandhi

None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Violence is the weapon of weak, non-violence that of the strong.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence

— Mahatma Gandhi

“I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform.

— Mahatma Gandhi

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for it breach is more so.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me…

— Mahatma Gandhi