Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

The power of nonviolent resistance can only come from honest working of the constructive programme.

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

But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed.

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

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

Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.

The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.

Satyagraha thrives on repression till at last the repressor is tired of it and the object of satyagraha is gained.

The method of satyagraha requires that the satyagrahi should never lose hope, so long as there is the slightest ground left for it.

Nonviolence is the means, the end for everyone is complete independence.

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

I myself am a very, very peaceful person. Throughout our history, from our own American revolution to the resistance against apartheid in South Africa, to labor strikes in the US, people have resorted to violence to achieve a more progressive society, from time to time.

Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.

I have repeatedly stated that satyagraha never fails and that one perfect satyagrahi is enough to vindicate Truth.

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

It's soul force that removed the English from India. It's soul force that brought down the Berlin Wall. It's soul force that gave life to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle for civil rights.

The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not meet with protest and opposition. It is like the cold, darkness and weight, which people had to put up with until recently when warmth, illumination and leverage were discovered.

Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence.

An awakened people who rely upon their nonviolent strength are independent in the face of any conceivable combination of the armed powers.

Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth.

I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.

Satyagraha is a force that has come to stay. No force in the world can kill it.

A satyagrahi has infinite patience, abundant faith in others, and ample hope.

Passive resistance is the resistance which does not resist.

Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle.