Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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

Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.

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

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

Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle.

Our aim is not to do things by violence to opponents.

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

Sometimes when we're incensed by the rancid tide of injustice, the impulse is to attack. We must avoid this. We have learned that violence as a means is always unsuccessful.

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 of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence.

nonviolence first changes the individual.

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

It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.

Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.

Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher laws - to the strength of the spirit.

History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.