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Violence is the weapon of weak, non-violence that of the strong.

Violence is the weapon of weak, non-violence that of the strong.

Mahatma Gandhi
Strong, Weapons, Violence

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity...If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior...If non-violence is the law of our being, the future is with women.

Mahatma Gandhi
Women, Law, Violence

The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.

Mahatma Gandhi
Path, Violence, Nations
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.159, Rajpal & Sons

Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.

Mahatma Gandhi
Violence, Substitutes, Satyagraha
Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.89, Hackett Publishing

Violence always thrived on counter violence.

Mahatma Gandhi
Violence
Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.

Mahatma Gandhi
Self, Violence, Defence
Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.

Mahatma Gandhi
Violence, Terrorism, Killing
Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.208, Tara Publishing

Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

Mahatma Gandhi
Doe, World, Violence
Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.59, New Directions Publishing

If there is violence, it will certainly be crushed because violence can only end in a disgraceful rout.

Mahatma Gandhi
Violence, Ends, Crushed
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another, we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies and the world.

Mahatma Gandhi
World, Violence, Passive

There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.

Mahatma Gandhi
Spiritual, Violence, Causes

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Mahatma Gandhi
Faith, Peace, Violence

Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence.

Mahatma Gandhi
Practice, Trying, Violence
Mahatma Gandhi (2000). “The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

An unjust law in itself is an act of violence.

Mahatma Gandhi
Law, Unjust, Violence

A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.

Mahatma Gandhi
Envy, Occupation, Violence
Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Socialism of My Conception”

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

Mahatma Gandhi
Violence, Harbour, Nonviolence

Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.

Mahatma Gandhi
Truth, Law, Violence

A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.

Mahatma Gandhi
Civilization, Different, Violence

Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.

Mahatma Gandhi
Doe, Violence, Civil Disobedience
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.

Mahatma Gandhi
Law, Genius, Violence
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.54, Courier Corporation

Poverty is the greatest violence.

Mahatma Gandhi
Poverty, Violence

I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause.

Mahatma Gandhi
Secret, Violence, Causes
Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.208, Tara Publishing

Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love.

Mahatma Gandhi
Essence, Violence, Belief
Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.38, New Directions Publishing

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

Mahatma Gandhi
Play, Fields, Violence
Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.60, New Directions Publishing

Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.

Mahatma Gandhi
Weakness, Violence, Satyagraha
Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works”