Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Submission

• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Thinking, Hands, Wife

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.340, Grove Press

• Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowardly submission. The latter befits neither man nor woman. Under violence, there are many stages and varieties of bravery. Every man must judge this for himself. No other person can or has the right.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Self, Judging

• It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spirit, Submission, Ahimsa

• Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Evil, Submission, Penalties

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.145, Courier Corporation

• In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evildoer. I am endeavoring to show my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiplies evil and that evil can only be sustained by violence. Withdrawal of support of evil requires complete abstention from violence. Non-violence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-cooperation with evil.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Humble, Past, Evil

  Courtroom statement, Ahmadabad, India, 23 Mar. 1922

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