Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it.

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

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

I am a seasoned soldier of nonviolence, and I have evidence enough to sustain my faith.

True nonviolence is mightier than the mightiest violence.

What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength.

True ahimsa lay in running into the mouth of himsa.

Nonviolence is the summit of bravery.

Nonviolent non-co-operators can only succeed when they have succeeded in attaining control over the hooligans of India.

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

I always say that non-violence is not the weapon of the weak. It is the weapon of the strong.

Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.

Nonviolence requires great patience.

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

The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die, he will not even desire to offer violence. Indeed, I may put it down as a self-evident proposition that the desire to kill is in inverse proportion to the desire to die. And history is replete with instances of men who by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.