Source: Collected Works
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Famous Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Source: Modern V. Ancient Civilization
“The patriotic spirit demands loyal and strict adherence to nonviolence and truth.”
“Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
Source: Collected Works
“Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief.”
“There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.”
Source: Collected Works
“A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings
Source: Collected Works
“Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.”
Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation
Source: The Essential Writings
Source: Collected Works
“The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.”
“Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.”
Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words
“Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.”
Source: The Essential Writings
“We become Godlike to the extent we realize nonviolence, but we can never become wholly God.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.”
Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings
Source: Gandhiji Expects: What the Father of the Nation Expected of People's Representatives
“A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world.”
Source: Satyagraha (non-violent Resistance)
“We may not go about parroting truth and nonviolence and steering clear of them in our daily life.”
Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation
Source: Gandhiji Expects: What the Father of the Nation Expected of People's Representatives
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
“A rabbit that runs away from the bull-terrier is not particularly non-violent.”
Source: Collected Works
“Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.”
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
“The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.”
Source: Satyagraha: Non-violent Resistance
Source: Panchayat Raj
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
“We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.”
“Nonviolence does not require any outside or outward training.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“To practice nonviolence in mundane matters is to know its true value.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings
“Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society.”
Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader
Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings
Source: Gandhi on Nehru
“Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.”
Source: Collected Works