Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.

Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it.

How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice?

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Who would be a traitor knave? Who would fill a coward's grave? Who so base as be a slave? Let him turn and flee!

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid. I don't consider it a moral virtue.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Ah, you coward! Look at you, running." "Actually, it's called improvising.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.

She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.

It is true that I must run a great risk; no gallant action was ever accomplished without danger.

No confirmed satyagrahi is dismayed by dangers, seen or unseen, from his opponent's side.

Cowardice is no virtue.

I'm not a pacifist. I'm not that brave.

The nature of a coward is to avoid death. If such a man courts peril there can be only two reasons. Either he is not a coward at all or there is no danger.

A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.

We are ashamed of our fear; for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger.

The brave man is intelligent; he faces danger because he understands it and is prepared to meet it. The drunkard who runs, in the delirium of intoxication, into a burning house is not brave; he is only stupid. But the clear-eyed hero who makes his way, with every sense alert and every nerve strung, into the hell of flames to rescue some little child, proves his courage.

You can return blow for blow if you are not brave enough to follow the path of nonviolence.

A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.