Violent Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

Violent means will give violent freedom.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My dictionary has no such expression as a violent fight.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A rabbit that runs away from the bull-terrier is not particularly non-violent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.

— Mahatma Gandhi

History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Boycott of foreign cloth through picketing may easily be violent; through the use of khadi it is most natural and absolutely nonviolent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I contend that non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for the pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

We find the general work of mankind is being carried on from day to day by the mass of people acting in…

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Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has…

— Mahatma Gandhi

In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully…

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive.…

— Mahatma Gandhi

H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving…

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Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate.…

— Mahatma Gandhi

If I were asked to define the Hindu creed, I should simply say: Search after truth through non-violent means. A man may…

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in…

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A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.

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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent…

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

If I were asked to define the Hindu creed, I should simply say: search after Truth through non-violent means. Hinduism is a…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is an ever-growing belief with me that truth cannot be found by violent means.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a…

— Mahatma Gandhi