Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. M
  4. Mahatma Gandhi
  5. Nonviolence

Mahatma Gandhi Quotes about Nonviolence

All Mahatma Gandhi Quotes Absolute Truth Abuse Acceptance Acting Addiction Adversity Affection Age Aggression Aids Ambition Anarchy Anger Animal Rights Appreciation Army Art Assumption Atheism Atheist Atmosphere Attitude Awakening Awareness Balance Beauty Being Strong Belief Birth Blame Bones Bravery Brotherhood Buddhism Business Challenges Change Changing The World Chaos Character Charity Children Choices Christ Christianity Church Citizenship Civil Disobedience Commitment Community Compassion Compromise Confession Conflict Consciousness Conservation Consumerism Contentment Country Courage Creation Crime Criticism Culture Darkness Death Debate Defeat Deliverance Democracy Desire Destiny Determination Devotion Dharma Dignity Diplomacy Discipline Diversity Doubt Driving Duty Dying Earth Eating Economics Economy Education Effort Empowerment Encouragement Energy English Language Environment Envy Equality Ethics Evil Evolution Exercise Experience Exploitation Failing Failure Faith Family Fear Feelings Fighting Finding Yourself Food Forgiveness Free Love Freedom Friendship Future Generosity Giving Giving Up Glory God Gold Goodness Grace Greatness Greed Growth Happiness Harmony Hate Hatred Healing Heart Heaven Helping Others Hinduism History Home Honesty Honor Hope House Human Nature Human Rights Humanity Humility Hunger Hurt Hypocrisy Identity Ignorance Imagination Imperialism Independence Individualism Individuality Injustice Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Integrity Intuition Islam Jesus Journalism Joy Judging Justice Karma Killing Kindness Knowing God Knowledge Krishna Labour Language Laughter Law Of Attraction Leadership Learning Leaving Liberty Life Life And Love Listening Literacy Literature Losing Loss Love Lust Lying Mankind Marriage Meditation Meetings Memories Military Money Morality Morning Motherhood Motivational Nationalism Nature Non Violence Nonviolence quotes Obedience Opportunity Optimism Overcoming Pain Passion Past Patience Patriotism Peace Perfection Perseverance Persistence Philosophy Police Politics Positive Positive Thinking Poverty Power Praise Prayer Prejudice Preparation Pride Progress Property Protest Purity Purpose Quality Rage Reading Reality Rebellion Redemption Reincarnation Religion Religion And Politics Respect Responsibility Revenge Revolution Righteousness Risk Running Sacrifice Sad Salvation Satan School Science Scripture Self Esteem Selfishness Seven Shyness Silence Simplicity Sin Slavery Sleep Society Son Sorrow Soul Speed Spirituality Spring Strength Struggle Study Submission Success Suffering Surrender Sustainability Talent Teaching Technology Temptation Terrorism Time Today Tolerance Tradition Tragedy Training Trust In God Truth Understanding Unity Vegetarian Victory Violence Virtue Vision Volunteer Waiting Wall War Warrior Water Weakness Wealth Welfare Wife Winning Wisdom Work Working Together Worry Worship Writing Yoga Youth
Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.

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

Mahatma Gandhi
Virtue, Social, Nonviolence

Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed.

Mahatma Gandhi
Creeds, Nonviolence, Unchangeable
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.119, Rajpal & Sons

The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.

Mahatma Gandhi
Mean, Islam, Nonviolence
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.122, Rajpal & Sons

The Charkha is an outward symbol of truth and nonviolence.

Mahatma Gandhi
Symbols, Nonviolence
Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.

Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence, Civil Disobedience, Disobedience
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.

Mahatma Gandhi
Violence, Harbour, Nonviolence

In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.

Mahatma Gandhi
Feels, Smallest, Nonviolence
Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”

There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.

Mahatma Gandhi
Schemes, Compulsion, Nonviolence
Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative.

Mahatma Gandhi
Negative, Satya, Nonviolence

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

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

I have no weapon but nonviolence.

Mahatma Gandhi
Weapons, Nonviolence
Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.43, Hackett Publishing

A nonviolent person's life is always at the disposal of him who would take it.

Mahatma Gandhi
Life Is, Persons, Nonviolence
Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

The religion of nonviolence is not meant merely for therishis and saints.

Mahatma Gandhi
Saint, Nonviolence
Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.158, Tara Publishing

Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.

Mahatma Gandhi
Defence, Nonviolence, Property
Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence”, Clarendon Press

For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.

Mahatma Gandhi
Creeds, Companion, Nonviolence
Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.113, Penguin Books India

We become Godlike to the extent we realize nonviolence, but we can never become wholly God.

Mahatma Gandhi
Realizing, Godlike, Nonviolence
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.120, Rajpal & Sons

Nonviolence to be a creed has to be all-pervasive.

Mahatma Gandhi
Creeds, Nonviolence
Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.52, New Directions Publishing

Nonviolence requires more courage than the soldier of war.

Mahatma Gandhi
War, Soldier, Nonviolence

I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses.

Mahatma Gandhi
Order, Weakness, Nonviolence
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact.

Mahatma Gandhi
Facts, Nonviolence

The common factor of all religions is nonviolence.

Mahatma Gandhi
Common, Nonviolence, Factors
Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

There can be no nonviolence offered by the militarily strong.

Mahatma Gandhi
Strong, Nonviolence
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.143, Rajpal & Sons

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”

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