Victoria Moran Quotes

The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.

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.

The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.

Nonviolence or soul force does not need physical aids for its propagation of effect.

The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying.

A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.

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.

It takes unbelievable spiritual courage, moral fortitude, to engage in militant nonviolence.

Satyagraha is a purely spiritual weapon.

Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

Our aim is not to do things by violence to opponents.

My satyagrahi spirit tells me that I may not retaliate.

Satyagraha is an attribute of the spirit within.

I knew A.J. Muste very well. I tried for a while to be like he was, and that is a total pacifist. But then Margot [my wife] hit me hard in the stomach one day to prove to me that I wasn't as perfect a pacifist as I thought I was.

Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.

The Indian government has managed to turn the concept of nonviolence on its head. Nonviolent resistance and nonviolent governance. Unlike, say, China or Turkey or Indonesia, India doesn't mow down its people. It doesn't kill people who are refusing to move. It just waits it out. It continues to do what it has to do and ignores the consequences.

Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.

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

Sometimes when we're incensed by the rancid tide of injustice, the impulse is to attack. We must avoid this. We have learned that violence as a means is always unsuccessful.

Gandhi was inevitable. If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable. He lived, thought and acted, inspired by the vision of humanity evolving toward a world of peace and harmony. We may ignore Gandhi at our own risk.

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

There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.

Nonviolence to be worth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces.

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

[A.J. Muste] never engaged in violence but he believed, as [Mahatma] Gandhi did - and he knew Gandhi slightly - he believed that a pacifist had to be active in the community.