“Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
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Famous Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Source: Socialism of My Conception
“Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.”
Source: Gandhigrams
“Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings
“Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances.”
Source: Gandhigrams
“Nonviolence is impossible without humility.”
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
“Nonviolence is a quality not of the body but of the soul.”
Source: Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi
“Nonviolence or soul force does not need physical aids for its propagation of effect.”
Source: A Day Book of Thoughts from Mahatma Gandhi
“Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“Nonviolence abhors fear and therefore, secrecy.”
Source: The Essential Writings
“True nonviolence is mightier than the mightiest violence.”
Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
“Nonviolence is the summit of bravery.”
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
“Perfect nonviolence is difficult. It admits to no weakness.”
“Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence.”
Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence
“Nonviolence requires great patience.”
Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words
“The common factor of all religions is nonviolence.”
Source: The Way to Communal Harmony
“The science of nonviolence can alone lead one to pure democracy.”
“There can be no nonviolence offered by the militarily strong.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self-acting.”
Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings
“Ours has not been unadulterated nonviolence in thought, word and deed.”
Source: Collected Works
“Without real nonviolence, there would be perfect anarchy.”
Source: Volume of prefaces
Source: Collected Works
“Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller.”
Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words
“Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.”
Source: Communal Unity
Source: The Essential Writings
“In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.”
Source: Collected Works
“Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.”
“You can return blow for blow if you are not brave enough to follow the path of nonviolence.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“Nonviolence to be a creed has to be all-pervasive.”
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
“Nonviolence requires more courage than the soldier of war.”
“Nonviolence is the means, the end for everyone is complete independence.”
“Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.”
“It is much more difficult to live for nonviolence than to die for it.”
Source: He Follows Christ
“The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.”
Source: Collected Works
Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader
“Nonviolence to be worth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces.”
Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings
Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings
“Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings
“Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.”
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
“The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.”
Source: Gandhi on Nehru