Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall... think of it, always.
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.
Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.
I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her.
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.
We may never be strong enough to be entirely non-violent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep non-violence as our goal and make steady progress towards it.
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment.
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.
Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
The patriotic spirit demands loyal and strict adherence to nonviolence and truth.
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
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