Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.

nonviolence first changes the individual.

It is triple ultra forbidden to respond to criticism with violence. There are a very few injunctions in the human art of rationality that have no ifs, ands, buts, or escape clauses. This is one of them. Bad argument gets counterargument. Does not get bullet. Never. Never ever never for ever.

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.

If all were nonviolent, there would be no anarchy and there would be no question of anybody being armed for meeting aggression from without.

Help them to learn songs of joy, instead of burn, baby, burn.

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

Somebody must have sense enough to meet hate with love. Somebody must have sense enough to meet physical force with soul force. If we will but try this way, we will be able to change these conditions and yet at the same time win the hearts and souls of those who have kept these conditions alive a way as old as the insights of Jesus of Nazareth, as modern as the techniques of Mohandas K. Gandhi. There is another way.

All I’m saying is that perhaps we can make a revolution without violence.

All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.

Opting for peace does not mean a passive acquiescence to evil or compromise of principle. It demands an active struggle against hatred, oppression and disunity, but not by using methods of violence. Building peace requires creative and courageous action

I believe that hope for the future depends on each of us taking nonviolence into our hearts and minds and developing new and imaginative structures which are nonviolent and life-giving for all.

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.

If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present.

There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.

The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.

Nonviolence is the only way. Even if you achieve your goal by violent means there are always side effects, and these can be worse than the problem. Violence is against human nature.

[People] don't see that there's a great deal of a difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance.

My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.

It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.

Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity.

History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.