Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.

Non-co-operation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice.

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

Nonviolent non-co-operation is the only alternative to anarchy and worse.

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

Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity.

Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances.

Active nonviolence of the brave puts to flight thieves, dacoits, murderers, and prepares an army of volunteers ready to sacrifice themselves in quelling riots, in extinguishing fires and feuds, and so on.

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

Our aim is not to do things by violence to opponents.

The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.

The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification.

It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war.

We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.

If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.

Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible.

Nonviolent non-co-operation, I am convinced, is a sacred duty at times.

Nonviolence or soul force does not need physical aids for its propagation of effect.

I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial.

Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.

Sometimes when we're incensed by the rancid tide of injustice, the impulse is to attack. We must avoid this. We have learned that violence as a means is always unsuccessful.

Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.

For mass struggles, nonviolence is essential.

My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.

The struggle with evil by means of violence is the same as an attempt to stop a cloud, in order that there may be no rain.