Nonviolence Quotes

There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.

If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.

Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.

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?

The common factor of all religions is nonviolence.

All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.

I am a seasoned soldier of nonviolence, and I have evidence enough to sustain my faith.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.

I have no weapon but nonviolence.

Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil.

There can be no nonviolence offered by the militarily strong.

Unexampled bravery, born of nonviolence, coupled with strict honesty shown by a fair number of Muslims, is sure to infect the whole of India.

Truth is my God. I can only search Him through nonviolence and in on other way.

My implicit faith in nonviolence does mean yielding to minorities when they are really weak.

Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.

Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence.

A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.

To my mind, Swaraj based on nonviolence is the fulfillment of the constructive programme.

My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force.

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

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.

Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be.

To one who reads the spirit of the Gita, it teaches the secret of nonviolence, the secret of realizing self through the physical body.

The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based.

Nonviolence is an attribute of the Almighty whose ways of fulfilling Himself are inscrutable.

It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.

Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for violence in the near or distant future.

The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.

Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.

Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.

Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.

Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world.

We may not go about parroting truth and nonviolence and steering clear of them in our daily life.

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.

If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase.

If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.

Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence.

Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.

The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.

Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.

We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.

Nonviolence does not require any outside or outward training.

Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home.

That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society.

Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.

Unless we learn the lesson of nonviolence fully, we shall never do away with the deadly feuds which have been the curse of the Frontier people.

My nonviolence is made of stern stuff. It is firmer than the firmest metal known to scientists.

My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.

My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane.