Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.

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.

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

I knew A.J. Muste very well. I tried for a while to be like he was, and that is a total pacifist. But then Margot [my wife] hit me hard in the stomach one day to prove to me that I wasn't as perfect a pacifist as I thought I was.

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.

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

Ahimsa is my God, and Truth is my God.

Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence.

There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.

There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.

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

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

The religion of nonviolence is not meant merely for therishis and saints.

Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.

My satyagrahi spirit tells me that I may not retaliate.

Nonviolence requires great patience.

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

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.

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

Through Gandhi and my own life experience, I have learned about nonviolence. I believe that human life is a very special gift from God, and that no one has a right to take that away in any cause, however just. I am convinced that nonviolence is more powerful than violence.

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

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

All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.