Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. Then alone it becomes irresistible.

We are not afraid of their guns. Honduras army pattern is just 7000 men. If we take up arms, we would quickly run away so few soldiers. But our goal is to allocate the regime in a peaceful and honorable way. Women, children, youth, students, workers -- we all have united in a civic front against the coup. Even my 80 year old mother went to the streets and practiced non-violent resistance.

My satyagrahi spirit tells me that I may not retaliate.

For a satyagrahi brigade only those are eligible who believe in ahimsa and satya.

Through Gandhi and my own life experience, I have learned about nonviolence. I believe that human life is a very special gift from God, and that no one has a right to take that away in any cause, however just. I am convinced that nonviolence is more powerful than violence.

Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence.

Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.

Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.

I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life

The highest religion has been defined by a negative word: ahimsa.

Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident.

Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.

Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty.

Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.

This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa.

Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

Ahimsa is the height of Kshatriya dharma as it represents the climax of fearlessness.

Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out.

All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.

What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence?

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.

Firstly, as a Buddhist monk, I hold that violence is not good. Secondly, I am a firm believer in the Gandian ethic of passive resistance. And thirdly, in reality, violence is not our strength.

You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love.

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 anything that can match it.

In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.