Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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

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

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

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

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

Passive resistance is the resistance which does not resist.

Civil disobedience has almost always been about expression. Generally, it's nonviolent, as defined by Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, and King.

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.

Non-cooperation is directed not against men but against measures. It is not directed against the Governors, but against the system they administer. The roots of non-cooperation lies not in hatred but in justice if not in love.

There is a more excellent way, of love and nonviolent protest.

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

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

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.

In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evildoer. I am endeavoring to show my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiplies evil and that evil can only be sustained by violence. Withdrawal of support of evil requires complete abstention from violence. Non-violence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-cooperation with evil.

Not those who shout 'satyagraha', 'satyagraha' will do satyagraha, but those who will work for it.

Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.

Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.

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

I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.

I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.

I myself am a very, very peaceful person. Throughout our history, from our own American revolution to the resistance against apartheid in South Africa, to labor strikes in the US, people have resorted to violence to achieve a more progressive society, from time to time.

Please be peaceful. We believe in law and order. We are not advocating violence, I want you to love your enemies... for what we are doing is right, what we are doing is just -- and God is with us.

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

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force.