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Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.

Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.

Mahatma Gandhi
Peace, Faces, Violence

If India won her freedom through truth and non-violence, India would not only point the way to all the exploited Asiatic nations, she would become a torch-bearer for the Negro races.

Mahatma Gandhi
Race, Way, Violence
Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “My Picture of Free India”

Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament.

Mahatma Gandhi
Punishment, Ornaments, Violence

I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.

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

It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.

Mahatma Gandhi
Hate, Violence, Non Violence
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.82, A&C Black

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”

I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions.

Mahatma Gandhi
Sick, World, Violence
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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

Mahatma Gandhi
Violence, Mets, Nonviolence
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.128, Rajpal & Sons

My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform.

Mahatma Gandhi
Mean, Reform, Violence
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.333, Rajpal & Sons

For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.

Mahatma Gandhi
Government, Path, Violence
Mahatma Gandhi (1971). “Collected Works”

To kill these (rabid) dogs, in my opinion, amount to himsa, but I believe it to be inevitable if we are to escape much greater himsa.

Mahatma Gandhi
Dog, Believe, Violence

What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.

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

My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.

Mahatma Gandhi
Doe, Different, Violence
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders.

Mahatma Gandhi
India, Borders, Violence
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.97, Courier Corporation

Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.

Mahatma Gandhi
Truth, Mean, Violence
Mahatma Gandhi (1941). “The Indian States' Problem”

Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.

Mahatma Gandhi
Atoms, Bombs, Violence
Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses.

Mahatma Gandhi
Mean, Successful, Violence
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

Armed conspiracies against something satanic is like matching Satans against Satan.

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

Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.

Mahatma Gandhi
Rights, Violence, Made

In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled treatment.

Mahatma Gandhi
Believe, Violence, Possibility
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.71, Rajpal & Sons

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

Mahatma Gandhi
Choices, Today, Violence

The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.

Mahatma Gandhi
Violence, Dictator, Pity

However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.

Mahatma Gandhi
May, Opponents, Violence
Young India, 11 Dec. 1924

The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Violence, He Man
Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “Hindu Dharma”

My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.

Mahatma Gandhi
Truth, Violence, Teach
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.144, Rajpal & Sons