Violence Quotes - Page 46

To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given up.

The state represents violence in a concentrated and organize form.

We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.

Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.

I have an implicit faith ... that mankind can only be saved through non-violence, which is the central teaching of the Bible, as I have understood the Bible.

Had we adopted non-violence as the weapon of the strong, because we realised that it was more effective than any other weapon, in fact the mightiest force in the world, we would have made use of its full potency and not have discarded it as soon as the fight against the British was over or we were in a position to wield conventional weapons. But as I have already said, we adopted it out of our helplessness. If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.

Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence.

Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder?

Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.

The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.

The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.

It is much more difficult to live for nonviolence than to die for it.

Ours has not been unadulterated nonviolence in thought, word and deed.

The science of nonviolence can alone lead one to pure democracy.

Nonviolence requires great patience.

Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence.

Nonviolence is the summit of bravery.

True nonviolence is mightier than the mightiest violence.

Nonviolence abhors fear and therefore, secrecy.

Nonviolence is impossible without humility.

Non-co-operators will make a serious mistake if they seek to convert people to their creed by violence.

A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us.

It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war.

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

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