Nonviolence Quotes - Page 12

• It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Destiny, India, Messages

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• The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that was being displayed in the cities of India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Cities, India, Today

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

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• My faith in truth and nonviolence is ever growing, and as I am ever trying to follow them in my life, I too am growing every moment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Trying, Growing

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• The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Justice, Firsts

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.77, A&C Black

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• Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb grows out of nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Enemy, Herbs

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion”, Clarendon Press

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• My nonviolence demands universal love, and you are not a small part of it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Demand, Small Parts

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.358, Tara Publishing

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• Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, World, Mass

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• My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  House, World, Messages

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Socialism of My Conception”

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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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• 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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• 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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• There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Schemes, Compulsion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Civilization, Different, Violence

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• 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

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• A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Home, Self

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Public Opinion, Creation, Born

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Nonviolence requires great patience.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Great Patience

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• The common factor of all religions is nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Common, Factors

  Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Democracy, Pure

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• There can be no nonviolence offered by the militarily strong.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strong

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.143, Rajpal & Sons

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• Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for violence in the near or distant future.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Hatred, Preparation

  Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Collected Works”

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