Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Nonviolence
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God has blessed me with the mission to place nonviolence before the nation for adoption.
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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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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.
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Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society.
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Enter with me into the sufferings, not only of the people of India but of the whole world. Nonviolence is a more active and real fight against wickedness than retaliation whose very nature is to increase wickedness. It is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.
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A nonviolent person's life is always at the disposal of him who would take it.
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The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent.
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If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence.
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[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike.
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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.
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A rabbit that runs away from the bull-terrier is not particularly non-violent.
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That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society.
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Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.
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There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.
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If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.
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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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Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb grows out of nonviolence.
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If all were nonviolent, there would be no anarchy and there would be no question of anybody being armed for meeting aggression from without.
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A nonviolent warrior knows no leaving the battle. He rushes into the mouth of himsa, never even once harbouring an evil thought.
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The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based.
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I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.
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I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.
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Active nonviolence of the brave puts to flight thieves, dacoits, murderers, and prepares an army of volunteers ready to sacrifice themselves in quelling riots, in extinguishing fires and feuds, and so on.
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To practice nonviolence in mundane matters is to know its true value.
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Nonviolence to be a creed has to be all-pervasive.
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The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).
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In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.
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Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative.
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Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.
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Mahatma Gandhi
- Born: October 2, 1869
- Died: January 30, 1948
- Occupation: Civil rights leader
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