Nonviolence Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Violence, Harbour

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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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• 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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• The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Rights, Care, Sin

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• Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Creeds, Unchangeable

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.119, Rajpal & Sons

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• Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Practice, Easy, Weak

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

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• Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Appreciation, Mean, Practice

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.180, Oxford University Press

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• Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Virtue, Social

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