Nonviolence Quotes

Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.

Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored.

To me Truth is God and there is no way to find Truth except the way of nonviolence.

I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.

There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.

The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions of men and women.

I shall, of course, die with nonviolence on my lips.

Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.

Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.

No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it.

Nonviolence has come among men and it will live. It is the harbinger of the peace of the world.

The Attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of nonviolence for each

We no longer have a choice between violence and non-violence. The choice of today stands between nonviolence or non-existence.

The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).

Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.

Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.

My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.

Nonviolence abhors fear and therefore, secrecy.

True nonviolence is mightier than the mightiest violence.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.

Nonviolence is the summit of bravery.

Perfect nonviolence is difficult. It admits to no weakness.

Nonviolence requires great patience.

The science of nonviolence can alone lead one to pure democracy.

My nonviolence demands universal love, and you are not a small part of it.

Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.

Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances.

Nonviolence is impossible without humility.

Nonviolence is a quality not of the body but of the soul.

Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.

There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.

My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.

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

Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence.

I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.

The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.

If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence.

Nonviolence which to me is the glory of Hinduism, has been sought to be explained away by our people as being meant for the sanyasis only.

India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial.

My faith in truth and nonviolence is ever growing, and as I am ever trying to follow them in my life, I too am growing every moment.

The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.

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

Ours has not been unadulterated nonviolence in thought, word and deed.

In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his.

Nonviolence requires more courage than the soldier of war.

Nonviolence is the means, the end for everyone is complete independence.

Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative.

Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact.

It is much more difficult to live for nonviolence than to die for it.

Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.