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The first principal of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Naked violence repels like the naked skeleton shorn of flesh, blood and the velvety skin.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Francesco Damiani punches with all the violence and bad intentions of Mahatma Gandhi.
— Jerry Izenberg
India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Non-co-operators will make a serious mistake if they seek to convert people to their creed by violence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.
— 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
By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls.
— 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
Violence always thrived on counter violence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The only hope of transforming the world from the 'tsunami of violence' is for each of us to become the change we wish to see in the world.
— Arun Manilal Gandhi
My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Democracy and violence can ill go together.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament.
— Mahatma Gandhi
It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs.
— Mahatma Gandhi
If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Cruelty against innocent helpless animals is the worst form of violence.
— Debasish Mridha
The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions.
— Mahatma Gandhi
When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
— Mahatma Gandhi
If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi Topi' is no longer an attire of the pacifist.
— Mukesh Kwatra
Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.
— Mahatma Gandhi
None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger ... Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nothing enduring can be built on violence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic
— Mahatma Gandhi
To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given up.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Violence is the weapon of weak, non-violence that of the strong.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Violence is the fear to other's ideals.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.
— Mahatma Gandhi
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.(Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13, 3 May 1919) — Mahatma Gandhi
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
— Mahatma Gandhi
When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence
— Mahatma Gandhi
The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The Koran says that there can be no heaven for one who sheds the blood of an innocent neighbour.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.
— Mahatma Gandhi
What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.
— Mahatma Gandhi
For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The state represents violence in a concentrated and organize form.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness
— Mahatma Gandhi
A person who believes in fighting and does not regard it as violence, though it is violence, is here being asked to kill.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.
— 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
What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.
— 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
If there is violence, it will certainly be crushed because violence can only end in a disgraceful rout.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder?
— Mahatma Gandhi
Non-violence is the article of faith.
— Mahatma Gandhi
An unjust law in itself is an act of violence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non-violence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
