No Violence Quotes

Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion.

Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense individual effort.

If India won her freedom through truth and non-violence, India would not only point the way to all the exploited Asiatic nations, she would become a torch-bearer for the Negro races.

The Koran says that there can be no heaven for one who sheds the blood of an innocent neighbour.

Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy.

An opponent is entitled to the same regard for his principles as we would expect others to have for ours. Non-violence demands that we should see every opportunity to win over opponents.

Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence.

With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster.

Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.

My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform.

For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.

To kill these (rabid) dogs, in my opinion, amount to himsa, but I believe it to be inevitable if we are to escape much greater himsa.

Disorder and violence are, in fact, things that might check the pace of India's progress.

I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders.

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.

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.

Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.

My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.

I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions.

My dictionary has no such expression as a violent fight.

Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.

What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.

Our aim is not to do things by violence to opponents.

Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.

What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength.

Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi-wearer will harbour no violence, no deceit, no impurity.

My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.

I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial.

Non-co-operators will make a serious mistake if they seek to convert people to their creed by violence.

Nothing enduring can be built on violence.

Complete independence through truth and non-violence means the independence of every unit, be it the humblest of the nation, without distinction of race, colour or creed.

When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you.

We no longer have a choice between violence and non-violence. The choice of today stands between nonviolence or non-existence.

That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non-violence.

Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness

True nonviolence is mightier than the mightiest violence.

It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war.

Violence is the fear to other's ideals.

Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.

We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.

The state represents violence in a concentrated and organize form.

To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given up.

By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls.

The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.

It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed.

The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up.

To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.

Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.