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Nonviolence is a quality not of the body but of the soul.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is an active force of the highest order. It is soul force or the power of the godhead within us.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence abhors fear and therefore, secrecy.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith.
— Mahatma Gandhi
For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.
— Mahatma Gandhi
It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence requires more courage than the soldier of war.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence has come among men and it will live. It is the harbinger of the peace of the world.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.
— Mahatma Gandhi
My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected.
— Mahatma Gandhi
My faith in truth and nonviolence is ever growing, and as I am ever trying to follow them in my life, I too am growing every moment.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
— Mahatma Gandhi
All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.
— Mahatma Gandhi
If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi and nonviolence. But if your enemy has no conscience like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible.
— Mahatma Gandhi
There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We may not go about parroting truth and nonviolence and steering clear of them in our daily life.
— Mahatma Gandhi
To one who reads the spirit of the Gita, it teaches the secret of nonviolence, the secret of realizing self through the physical body.
— Mahatma Gandhi
You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.
— Mahatma Gandhi
My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Since the propagation of nonviolence is the mission of my life, I must pursue it in all weathers.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Perfect nonviolence is difficult. It admits to no weakness.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.
— Mahatma Gandhi
God has blessed me with the mission to place nonviolence before the nation for adoption.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The science of nonviolence can alone lead one to pure democracy.
— Mahatma Gandhi
There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is impossible without humility.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.
— Mahatma Gandhi
My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.
— Mahatma Gandhi
My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances.
— Mahatma Gandhi
My nonviolence is made of stern stuff. It is firmer than the firmest metal known to scientists.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I have no weapon but nonviolence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
If my nonviolence is to be contagious and infectious, I must acquire greater control over my thoughts.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The Charkha is an outward symbol of truth and nonviolence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The spinning wheel is a symbol of nonviolence for me.
— Mahatma Gandhi
All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.
— Mahatma Gandhi
To my mind, Swaraj based on nonviolence is the fulfillment of the constructive programme.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Without real nonviolence, there would be perfect anarchy.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses.
— Mahatma Gandhi
There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
My implicit faith in nonviolence does mean yielding to minorities when they are really weak.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.
— Mahatma Gandhi
My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief.
— Mahatma Gandhi
In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.
— Mahatma Gandhi
If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The Attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of nonviolence for each
— Mahatma Gandhi
I am a seasoned soldier of nonviolence, and I have evidence enough to sustain my faith.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Just as there are signs by which you can recognize violence with the naked eye, so is the spinning wheel to me a decisive sign of nonviolence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.
— Mahatma Gandhi
This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa.
— Malala Yousafzai
The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
There can be no nonviolence offered by the militarily strong.
— Mahatma Gandhi
If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is something very powerful, and the power behind it is not weapons, but the support of the people.
— Arun Manilal Gandhi
Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based.
— Mahatma Gandhi
What can be richer and more fruitful than a greater fulfillment of the vow of nonviolence in thought, word and deed or the spread of that spirit?
— Mahatma Gandhi
The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions of men and women.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact.
— Mahatma Gandhi