Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most things.

Nonviolence requires great patience.

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

Nonviolence is an attribute of the Almighty whose ways of fulfilling Himself are inscrutable.

At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self-acting.

Nonviolence is an active force of the highest order. It is soul force or the power of the godhead within us.

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

I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the weak. I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the strongest. I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

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

Nonviolence is impossible without humility.

Nonviolence does not require any outside or outward training.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.

Nonviolence is a method that transforms, first of all, the individual once you understand it and embrace it. It begins with you and, if you can, about transforming individuals so that they love unconditionally.

Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non­resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self­suffering.

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

Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence.

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.

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.

Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith.

Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.

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.

This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa.

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

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.