Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Nonviolence requires great patience.

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.

In the dictionary of satyagraha, there is no enemy.

The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it.

Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.

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.

Nonviolence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be nonviolent

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

We must follow nonviolence and love.

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.

There is a more excellent way, of love and nonviolent protest.

Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.

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.

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

nonviolence first changes the individual.

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

Nonviolence means an ocean of compassion. It means shedding from us every trace of ill will for others. It does not mean abjectness or timidity, or fleeing in fear. It means, on the contrary, firmness of mind and courage, a resolute spirit.

Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances.

Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.

My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected.

Nonviolence is the summit of bravery.

My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane.