My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave. — 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
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
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
The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The spirit of non-violence necessarily leads to humility. Non-violence means reliance on God, the rock of ages. If we would seek his… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Disorder and violence are, in fact, things that might check the pace of India's progress. — 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
Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder? — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly. — 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
Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence. — 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
When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you. — 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
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
Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is my conviction that nothing enduring can be built on violence. The only safe way to overcome an enemy is to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity...If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's… — 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
In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary." ( Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13 , 3 May 1919)” — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I have an implicit faith ... that mankind can only be saved through non-violence, which is the central teaching of the Bible,… — 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
The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that… — 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
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
