Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the weak. I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the strongest. I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

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

My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise.

Nonviolence is a quality not of the body but of the soul.

Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most things.

Nonviolence which to me is the glory of Hinduism, has been sought to be explained away by our people as being meant for the sanyasis only.

Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.

At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self-acting.

My satyagrahi spirit tells me that I may not retaliate.

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.

The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.

Nonviolence is an active force of the highest order. It is soul force or the power of the godhead within us.

Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle.

Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non­resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self­suffering.

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

Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.

Ahimsa is my God, and Truth is my God.

It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.

For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering.

Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith.

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

The essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent struggle arise naturally. Nonviolence is not a dogma; it is a process.

Nonviolence is an attribute of the Almighty whose ways of fulfilling Himself are inscrutable.

A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha.

Non violence means people in action. People have to understand that with non-violence goes a hell of a lot of organization.