Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Nonviolence to be a creed has to be all-pervasive.

Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.

With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster.

I myself would go for nonviolence if it was consistent, if everybody was going to be nonviolent all the time. I'd say, okay, let's get with it, we'll all be nonviolent. But I don't go along with any kind of nonviolence unless everybody's going to be nonviolent. If they make the Ku Klux Klan nonviolent, I'll be nonviolent. If they make the White Citizens Council nonviolent, I'll be nonviolent. But as long as you've got somebody else not being nonviolent, I don't want anybody coming to me talking any nonviolent talk.

I am peaceful but I am not a pacifist in the philosophical sense.

The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.

For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.

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

I am a seasoned soldier of nonviolence, and I have evidence enough to sustain my faith.

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.

Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.

I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence

Nonviolence with Dr. [Martin Luther ]King is only a method. That's not his objective.

My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force.

Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.

The spinning wheel is a symbol of nonviolence for me.

Nonviolence is impossible without humility.

I am a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.

Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.

I am prepared to die but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

I am certainly willing to fight for America as well as vote, but I shall fight just the way you did in the Civil War—at the end of a goose quill pen

Civil disobedience has almost always been about expression. Generally, it's nonviolent, as defined by Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, and King.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.

Nonviolence requires great patience.