Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.

The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.

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

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

Passive resistance is the resistance which does not resist.

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

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

Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.

We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.

I cannot make myself believe that God wanted me to hate. I'm tired of violence, I've seen too much of it. I've seen such hate on the faces of too many sheriffs in the South. And I'm not going to let my oppressor dictate to me what method I must use. Our oppressors have used violence. Our oppressors have used hatred. Our oppressors have used rifles and guns. I'm not going to stoop down to their level. I want to rise to a higher level. We have a power that can't be found in Molotov cocktails.

Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible.

Nonviolent non-co-operation, I am convinced, is a sacred duty at times.

Nonviolence or soul force does not need physical aids for its propagation of effect.

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

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.

Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.

For mass struggles, nonviolence is essential.

Nonviolent non-co-operation is the only alternative to anarchy and worse.

The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success.

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

However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.

[People] don't see that there's a great deal of a difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance.

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