Nonviolence Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Together, Earth, Position

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.58, New Directions Publishing

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• We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Liberty, Kingdoms, Dare

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• To practice nonviolence in mundane matters is to know its true value.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Practice, Matter, Mundane

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.88, Hackett Publishing

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• Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Home, Staying

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.130, Rajpal & Sons

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• Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Jesus, Excellence, Active

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• Unexampled bravery, born of nonviolence, coupled with strict honesty shown by a fair number of Muslims, is sure to infect the whole of India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Honesty, Numbers, Bravery

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• You can return blow for blow if you are not brave enough to follow the path of nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Blow, Brave, Path

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.154, Rajpal & Sons

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• Nonviolence requires more courage than the soldier of war.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  War, Soldier

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• Nonviolence is the means, the end for everyone is complete independence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Independence, Ends

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Soul, Violence, Heat

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• Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Negative, Satya

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• Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Facts

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Difficult, Dies

  Mahatma Gandhi (1943). “He Follows Christ”

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• The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Islam

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.122, Rajpal & Sons

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• The propagation of truth and nonviolence can be done less by books than by actually living on those principles.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Book, Principles, Done

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• Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Suffering, Conscious

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.79, Rajpal & Sons

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• Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Growth, Plant, Grows

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strong, Passion, Creeds

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.115, Penguin Books India

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• Nonviolence to be worth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faces, Force, Hostile

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.312, Grove Press

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• Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Miracle, Velocity, Active

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.311, Grove Press

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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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