Top 100 Mahatma Gandhi Nonviolence Quotes
#1. If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.
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#2. Since the propagation of nonviolence is the mission of my life, I must pursue it in all weathers.
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#3. Nonviolence is an active force of the highest order. It is soul force or the power of the godhead within us.
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#4. In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his.
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#5. The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.
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#6. The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.
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#7. I might be ready to embrace a snake, but, if one comes to bite you, I should kill it and protect you.
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#8. My nonviolence demands universal love, and you are not a small part of it.
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#10. All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.
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#11. I shall, of course, die with nonviolence on my lips.
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#12. Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.
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#13. Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.
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#14. Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative.
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#15. The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.
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#16. The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.
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#17. Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances.
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#18. The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.
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#19. Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.
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#20. Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.
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#21. There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.
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#22. Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger ... Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.
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#23. The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.
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#24. Nonviolence is a quality not of the body but of the soul.
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#25. The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.
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#26. The force of nonviolence is infinitely more wonderful and subtle than the material forces of nature, like electricity.
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#27. The religion of nonviolence is not meant merely for therishis and saints.
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#28. 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
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#29. A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.
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#30. You can return blow for blow if you are not brave enough to follow the path of nonviolence.
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#31. Unexampled bravery, born of nonviolence, coupled with strict honesty shown by a fair number of Muslims, is sure to infect the whole of India.
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#32. If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way.
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#33. The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.
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#34. The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that was being displayed in the cities of India.
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#35. Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence.
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#36. No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it.
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#37. Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher laws - to the strength of the spirit.
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#38. A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.
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#39. To my mind, Swaraj based on nonviolence is the fulfillment of the constructive programme.
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#40. Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith.
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#41. Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle.
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#42. Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.
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#43. The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.
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#44. Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.
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#45. 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.
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#46. A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.
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#47. Nonviolence is an attribute of the Almighty whose ways of fulfilling Himself are inscrutable.
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#48. There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.
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#49. Truth is my God. I can only search Him through nonviolence and in on other way.
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#50. All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.
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#51. Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.
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#52. 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.
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#53. I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.
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#54. True nonviolence is mightier than the mightiest violence.
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#55. The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.
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#56. The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.
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#57. My implicit faith in nonviolence does mean yielding to minorities when they are really weak.
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#58. Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.
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#59. You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.
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#60. India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial.
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#61. At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self-acting.
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#62. There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.
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#63. If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence.
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#64. If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.
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#65. 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.
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#66. To me Truth is God and there is no way to find Truth except the way of nonviolence.
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#67. Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.
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#68. Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.
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#70. Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.
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#71. It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.
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#72. Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
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#73. Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.
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#74. The man or the woman who can display the nonviolence of the brave can easily stand against as external invasion.
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#75. My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane.
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#76. My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers.
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#77. My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.
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#78. Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.
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#79. Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.
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#80. Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.
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#81. Perfect nonviolence is difficult. It admits to no weakness.
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#82. 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.
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#83. Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.
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#84. My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force.
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#85. Every moment of my existence is dedicated to the winning of Swaraj by means of truth and nonviolence.
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#86. Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.
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#87. There can be no nonviolence offered by the militarily strong.
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#90. Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored.
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#91. Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident.
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#92. 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.
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#93. Nonviolence to be a creed has to be all-pervasive.
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#94. Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.
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#95. The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).
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#96. For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.
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#97. Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller.
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#98. The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success.
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#99. Nonviolence succeeds only when we have a real living faith in God.
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#100. There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.
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