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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.

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.

Mahatma Gandhi
People, Doe, Protect

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.

Mahatma Gandhi
Art, Training, Dying
Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.77, A&C Black

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

Mahatma Gandhi
Fall, Arms, Schemes
Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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

Mahatma Gandhi
Age, Apostles, Nonviolence
Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.160, A&C Black

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

Mahatma Gandhi
Warrior, Active, Nonviolence
Mahatma Gandhi (1951). “Satyagraha: Non-violent Resistance”

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

Mahatma Gandhi
Mean, Negative Words, Effort
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “Panchayat Raj”

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

Mahatma Gandhi
Liberty, Kingdoms, Dare

Nonviolence does not require any outside or outward training.

Mahatma Gandhi
Training, Doe, Nonviolence
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.131, Rajpal & Sons

Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home.

Mahatma Gandhi
Home, Staying, Nonviolence
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.130, Rajpal & Sons

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

Mahatma Gandhi
Use, Individual, Term
Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.102, Penguin Books India

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

Mahatma Gandhi
Law, Goes On, Profit
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force.

Mahatma Gandhi
Surrender, Satyagraha, Force
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Satyagraha (non-violent Resistance)”

You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death.

Mahatma Gandhi
Enemy, Done, Silent
Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.73, New Directions Publishing

A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail to catch every breeze as you do in the name of communism.

Mahatma Gandhi
Horse, Names, Two

If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life.

Mahatma Gandhi
Peaceful, Details, Attention
Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

I know that not only is Swaraj our birthright, but it is our sacred duty to win it.

Mahatma Gandhi
Winning, Sacred, Duty
Mahatma Gandhi (1935). “Young India, 1927-1928”

I have had the hardihood to say that Swaraj could not be granted even by God.

Mahatma Gandhi
Granted
Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gandhigrams”

With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster.

Mahatma Gandhi
Want, Way, Violence
Mahatma Gandhi (1931). “Young India”

When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Innocent Man, Hands
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

Prosecution of the constructive programme means constructing the structure of Swaraj.

Mahatma Gandhi
Mean, Structure, Prosecution
Mahatma Gandhi (1979). “Collected Works”

The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj.

Mahatma Gandhi
Restoration, Speech, Association
Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.106, Hackett Publishing

Destruction of the churches and the like is not the way to Swaraj as defined by the Congress.

Mahatma Gandhi
Church, Way, Destruction
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

Truth is not truth merely because it is ancient. Nor is truth necessarily to be regarded with suspicion because it is ancient.

Mahatma Gandhi
Truth, Ancient, Truth Is
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.71, Courier Corporation

Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence.

Mahatma Gandhi
Truth, Devotion, Sole
Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.45, Oxford University Press

If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you must reduce yourself to a zero.

Mahatma Gandhi
Zero, Truth, Ocean
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.68, A&C Black