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Nonviolence Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
- Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of…
- Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows…
- To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is…
- If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken.
- It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are…
- A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known…
- When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.
- The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it.
- There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.
- [He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike.
- In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled…
- I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.
- There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.
- The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.
- I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to…
- Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing the stuff of…
- When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence.
- The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).
- Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts,…
- Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.
- Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.
- Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.
- For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love.
- Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
- Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored.
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- There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence. — Cesar Chavez
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- Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to… — Mahatma Gandhi
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- If you give yourself totally to the nonviolence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts… — Cesar Chavez
- The students I've been with these twenty years are looking for a world where it becomes a little easier to love and… — Colman McCarthy
- Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment. — Nhat Hanh
- I believe that hope for the future depends on each of us taking nonviolence into our hearts and minds and developing new… — Mairead Corrigan
- The essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent… — Nhat Hanh
- Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence. — Joan Baez