Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Nonviolence to be a creed has to be all-pervasive.

There is no such thing as 'Gandhism', and I do not want to leave any sect after me.

True nonviolence is mightier than the mightiest violence.

Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world.

Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith.

Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth.

The spinning wheel is a symbol of nonviolence for me.

Satyagraha is search for Truth, and God is Truth.

The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.

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

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.

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.

We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.

Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.

A nonviolent person's life is always at the disposal of him who would take it.

Non-violence should be a tactic - not an ideology preached from the sidelines to victims of massive violence.

We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do.

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

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

I plan to stand by nonviolence, because I have found it to be a philosophy of life that regulates not only my dealings in the struggle for racial justice, but also my dealings with people, and with my own self.

There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.

I have no weapon but nonviolence.

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

A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary and there is no intention to deceive anyone.