Nonviolence Quotes - Page 10

• Active nonviolence is necessary for those who will offer civil disobedience but the will and proper training are enough for the people to co-operate with those who are chosen for civil disobedience.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  People, Training, Enough

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

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• The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Practice, Differences

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• We may not go about parroting truth and nonviolence and steering clear of them in our daily life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  May, Daily Life, Steering

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• Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Practice, Independence, Approach

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.165, Oxford University Press

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• If people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of its shortage.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, People, Matter

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• What can be richer and more fruitful than a greater fulfillment of the vow of nonviolence in thought, word and deed or the spread of that spirit?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Deeds, Spirit, Vow

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Collected Works”

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• A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Resistance, Atrocities

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• Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Interest, Suppression

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

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• If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wish, May, Violence

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• The patriotic spirit demands loyal and strict adherence to nonviolence and truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Patriotic, Demand, Loyal

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• Those who have their hands dyed deep in blood cannot build a nonviolent order for the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Order, Blood, Hands

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Civilization, Village

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani (1970). “Modern V. Ancient Civilization”, Bombay : Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

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• There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fall, Fall Back, Retaining

  Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Collected Works”

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• A nonviolent warrior knows no leaving the battle. He rushes into the mouth of himsa, never even once harbouring an evil thought.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Warrior, Evil, Leaving

  Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”

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• Total nonviolent non-cooperation has no place in popular Raj, whatever its level may be.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  May, Levels, Cooperation

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• The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Historical, West

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.171, Vintage

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• For a nonviolent struggle, there is no age limit. The blind, the maimed and the bed-ridden may serve, and not only men but women also.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Men, Age

  Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

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• Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within the states or in British India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strong, India, States

  Mahatma Gandhi (1941). “The Indian States' Problem”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Violence, Brutes

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

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• Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Discipline, Might, Infinite

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• The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Fighting, May

  Mahatma Gandhi (1944*). “Gandhi Against Fascism”

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• Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  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

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• My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Punishment, Thieves, Doe

  Mahatma Gandhi (1931). “Young India”

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• To my mind, Swaraj based on nonviolence is the fulfillment of the constructive programme.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mind, Fulfillment, Constructive

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• The man or the woman who can display the nonviolence of the brave can easily stand against as external invasion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Brave, Invasion

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