Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Non Violence
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We may never be strong enough to be entirely non-violent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep non-violence as our goal and make steady progress towards it.
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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
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Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the composition of my undying faith in non-violence which rules all my actions, worldly and temporal.
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If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.
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My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
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If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.
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Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.
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If India won her freedom through truth and non-violence, India would not only point the way to all the exploited Asiatic nations, she would become a torch-bearer for the Negro races.
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It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin.
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Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense individual effort.
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Violence is the weapon of weak, non-violence that of the strong.
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Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
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In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evildoer. I am endeavoring to show my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiplies evil and that evil can only be sustained by violence. Withdrawal of support of evil requires complete abstention from violence. Non-violence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-cooperation with evil.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place.
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Had we adopted non-violence as the weapon of the strong, because we realised that it was more effective than any other weapon, in fact the mightiest force in the world, we would have made use of its full potency and not have discarded it as soon as the fight against the British was over or we were in a position to wield conventional weapons. But as I have already said, we adopted it out of our helplessness. If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.
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The spirit of non-violence necessarily leads to humility. Non-violence means reliance on God, the rock of ages. If we would seek his aid, we must approach Him with a humble and contrite heart.
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Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity...If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior...If non-violence is the law of our being, the future is with women.
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Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.
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Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
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Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.
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He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. A suspicious man is lost to himself and the eworld.... Suspicion is of the brood of violence. Non-violence cannot but trust.
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I have an implicit faith ... that mankind can only be saved through non-violence, which is the central teaching of the Bible, as I have understood the Bible.
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In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war] to go on. My non-violence seems almost impotent. But the answer comes at the end of the daily quarrel that neither God nor non-violence is impotent. Impotence is in men. I must try on without losing faith even though I may break in the attempt.
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H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving to change the nature of their respective countrymen by forcing and hammering violent methods on them. Man may be suppressed in this manner but he cannot be changed. Ahimsa [non-violence in the Hindu tradition], on the other hand, can change human nature and sooner than men like Churchill and Hitler."
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Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and beasts. They have not been created to feed our destructive propensities. If we only knew the mind of the Creator, we should find their proper place in His creation.
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Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
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Non-violence is the article of faith.
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Mahatma Gandhi
- Born: October 2, 1869
- Died: January 30, 1948
- Occupation: Civil rights leader
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