Violence Quotes - Page 47

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

My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions.

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

Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home.

Nonviolence does not require any outside or outward training.

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

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

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.

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.

What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength.

There can be no nonviolence offered by the militarily strong.

Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion.

The common factor of all religions is nonviolence.

Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute.

Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact.

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

Nothing enduring can be built on violence.

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