Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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

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 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.

Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence.

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

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.

Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances.

We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence.

My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force.

At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self-acting.

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

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

Nonviolence requires great patience.

Nonviolence is an active force of the highest order. It is soul force or the power of the godhead within us.

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

I myself would go for nonviolence if it was consistent, if everybody was going to be nonviolent all the time. I'd say, okay, let's get with it, we'll all be nonviolent. But I don't go along with any kind of nonviolence unless everybody's going to be nonviolent. If they make the Ku Klux Klan nonviolent, I'll be nonviolent. If they make the White Citizens Council nonviolent, I'll be nonviolent. But as long as you've got somebody else not being nonviolent, I don't want anybody coming to me talking any nonviolent talk.

For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.

The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it.

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

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.

Active nonviolence is necessary for those who will offer civil disobedience but the will and proper training are enough for the people to co-operate with those who are chosen for civil disobedience.

Nonviolence with Dr. [Martin Luther ]King is only a method. That's not his objective.

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