Mahatma Gandhi Nonviolence Quotes & Sayings
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Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi
My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world. — Mahatma Gandhi
A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible. — Mahatma Gandhi
The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that was being displayed in the cities of India. — Mahatma Gandhi
I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years. — Mahatma Gandhi
Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi
I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses. — Mahatma Gandhi
Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it. — Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you. — Mahatma Gandhi
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 converted into friends. — Mahatma Gandhi
To one who reads the spirit of the Gita, it teaches the secret of nonviolence, the secret of realizing self through the physical body. — Mahatma Gandhi
If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way. — Mahatma Gandhi
Unless we learn the lesson of nonviolence fully, we shall never do away with the deadly feuds which have been the curse of the Frontier people. — Mahatma Gandhi
There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it. — Mahatma Gandhi
You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages. — Mahatma Gandhi
When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it. — Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence or soul force does not need physical aids for its propagation of effect. — Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues. — Mahatma Gandhi
The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it. — Mahatma Gandhi
The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success. — Mahatma Gandhi
My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers. — Mahatma Gandhi
If my nonviolence is to be contagious and infectious, I must acquire greater control over my thoughts. — Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is impossible without humility. — Mahatma Gandhi
The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker. — 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 violence. — Mahatma Gandhi
All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation. — Mahatma Gandhi
I might be ready to embrace a snake, but, if one comes to bite you, I should kill it and protect you. — Mahatma Gandhi
Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills. — Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller. — Mahatma Gandhi
Perfect nonviolence is difficult. It admits to no weakness. — Mahatma Gandhi
A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent. — Mahatma Gandhi
Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth. — Mahatma Gandhi
There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi
I shall, of course, die with nonviolence on my lips. — Mahatma Gandhi
The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi
The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life. — Mahatma Gandhi
Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident. — Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property. — Mahatma Gandhi
The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity. — Mahatma Gandhi
The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence). — Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger ... Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice. — Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. — Mahatma Gandhi
Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb grows out of nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi
Active nonviolence is necessary for those who will offer civil disobedience but the will and proper training are enough for the people to co-operate with those who are chosen for civil disobedience. — Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence to be worth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces. — Mahatma Gandhi
The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi
The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based. — Mahatma Gandhi
The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions of men and women. — Mahatma Gandhi
What can be richer and more fruitful than a greater fulfillment of the vow of nonviolence in thought, word and deed or the spread of that spirit? — Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is the summit of bravery. — Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate. — Mahatma Gandhi
To my mind, Swaraj based on nonviolence is the fulfillment of the constructive programme. — Mahatma Gandhi
Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi
Most Americans think of Rosa Parks as a demur, pleasant-enough seamstress who backed into history by being too tired to get out of her seat on a bus one day, in reality she had been trained in nonviolence spirit and tactics at a famous institution, Highlander Folk School. It seems to be a difficult concept for most of us that peace is a skill that can be learned. We know war can be learned, but we seem to think that one becomes a peacemaker by a mere change of heart. (23) — Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is a quality not of the body but of the soul. — Mahatma Gandhi
Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle. — Mahatma Gandhi
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 no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher laws - to the strength of the spirit. — Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are. — Mahatma Gandhi
My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected. — Mahatma Gandhi
Ours has not been unadulterated nonviolence in thought, word and deed. — Mahatma Gandhi
The man or the woman who can display the nonviolence of the brave can easily stand against as external invasion. — Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances. — Mahatma Gandhi
If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi
Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life. — Mahatma Gandhi
Just as there are signs by which you can recognize violence with the naked eye, so is the spinning wheel to me a decisive sign of nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi
A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat. — Mahatma Gandhi
Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for violence in the near or distant future. — Mahatma Gandhi
The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton. — Mahatma Gandhi
There can be no nonviolence offered by the militarily strong. — Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force. — Mahatma Gandhi
A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society. — Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home. — Mahatma Gandhi
There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi
My faith in truth and nonviolence is ever growing, and as I am ever trying to follow them in my life, I too am growing every moment. — Mahatma Gandhi
To me Truth is God and there is no way to find Truth except the way of nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi
No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it. — Mahatma Gandhi
In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his. — Mahatma Gandhi
The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence. — Mahatma Gandhi
For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions. — Mahatma Gandhi
Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just. — Mahatma Gandhi
If people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of its shortage. — Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest. — Mahatma Gandhi
I have no weapon but nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi
My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious. — Mahatma Gandhi
My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism. — Mahatma Gandhi