Nonviolence Quotes - Page 18

• For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Creeds, Companion

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.113, Penguin Books India

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• If my nonviolence is to be contagious and infectious, I must acquire greater control over my thoughts.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Contagious, My Thoughts, Greater

  Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

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• Every moment of my existence is dedicated to the winning of Swaraj by means of truth and nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Winning, Moments

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

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• The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Want, Virtue, Claims

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.32, Hackett Publishing

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• I shall, of course, die with nonviolence on my lips.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lips, Courses, Dies

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Order, Weakness, Underestimated

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Years, Unbroken, Fifty

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.87, A&C Black

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• The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Becoming, Teach, Strongest

  Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India, 1924-1926”

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• The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Path, Violence, Nations

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.159, Rajpal & Sons

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• Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Defence, Property, Recklessness

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence”, Clarendon Press

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• Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, World, Favour

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Government, Self

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.151, Penguin Books India

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• A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Darkness, Construction

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• A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Envy, Occupation, Violence

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

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• A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Government, Long, Rich

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.126, A&C Black

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• The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  War, Agreement, Opponents

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Thought of Mahatma Gandhi: A Digest”

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• In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Army, Moral, Obedience

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• If all were nonviolent, there would be no anarchy and there would be no question of anybody being armed for meeting aggression from without.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Would Be, Anarchy, Aggression

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• If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Evident, Ifs

  Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

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• Those who are truthful, nonviolent and brave do not cease to be so because of the stupidity of their leader.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leader, Brave, Stupidity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Violent, Centralization, Structure

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.119, A&C Black

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• Boycott of foreign cloth through picketing may easily be violent; through the use of khadi it is most natural and absolutely nonviolent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Use, May, Natural

  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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• Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Animal, Men, Doe

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.105, Courier Corporation

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• Never could I advocate nonviolence in this country and not advocate nonviolence for the whole world.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Country, Fun

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• When asked what attribute he most admired in human nature, Mahatma Gandhi replied, simply and immediately, 'Courage'. 'Nonviolence', he said, 'is not to be used ever as the shield of the coward. It is the weapon of the brave.

  Richard Attenborough

  Brave, Coward, Weapons

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