Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering.

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

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

Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.

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

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

Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.

Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.

It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.

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

Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller.

[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.

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

The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both.

Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.

Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.

My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force.

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

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