Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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 of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence.

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.

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.

Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.

One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible to turn the US around through nonviolent revolution. But one thing favors such an attempt: the total inability of violence to change anything for the better

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

My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.

There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.

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

Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.

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 principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both.

Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances.

Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.