Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances.

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

I feel that non-violence is really the only way that we can follow because violence is just so self-defeating. A riot ends up creating many more problems for the negro community than it solved. We can through violence burn down a building, but you can't establish justice. You can murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder through violence. You can murder a hater, but you can't murder hate. And what we're trying to get rid of is hate, injustice, and all of these other things that continue the long night of man's inhumanity to man.

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

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

Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence.

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

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

nonviolence first changes the individual.

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

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, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.

We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence.

Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

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

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.

It is my belief that the problem of bringing peace to the world on a supranational basis will be solved only by employing Gandhi's method on a larger scale.

In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.

For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.

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

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

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

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.

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