Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war.

It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.

Read about some squirrelly guy who claims that he just don't believe in fighting, and I wonder how long the rest of us can count on being free.

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

If you want peace, you won't get it with violence.

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

In the dictionary of satyagraha, there is no enemy.

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.

Great anger and violence can never build a nation.

Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it.

We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us.

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.

Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident.

Nonviolence has come among men and it will live. It is the harbinger of the peace of the world.

Nonviolence is the only way. Even if you achieve your goal by violent means there are always side effects, and these can be worse than the problem. Violence is against human nature.

I can think about what [Mahatma] Gandhi said or [Martin Luther] King said about violence begetting violence, and still be true to my job by asking myself the question whenever we're confronted with a situation where some may be arguing for military action: Will this actually result in America being safer, or the most lives being saved?

On this International Day of Peace, let us all honor those who have suffered from violence. Let us hold in our hearts the ideal of peace.

The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that was being displayed in the cities of India.

Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.

Violence is not the way.

Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for violence in the near or distant future.

We have become blind to the alternatives to violence.

We still have a choice today: nonviolence coesistence or violent coannihilation.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.