Nonviolence Quotes - Page 9

• We become Godlike to the extent we realize nonviolence, but we can never become wholly God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Realizing, Godlike

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.120, Rajpal & Sons

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• That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Use, Individual, Term

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.102, Penguin Books India

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• Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Exercise, World, Demand

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.95, Courier Corporation

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• When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  War, Men, Law

  Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

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• My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mundane, Superiors

  Gandhi (Mahatma) (1960). “Wit and wisdom of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Clay, Doe, Needs

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• Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Virtue, Social

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• Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Appreciation, Mean, Practice

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.180, Oxford University Press

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• Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Practice, Easy, Weak

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Creeds, Unchangeable

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.119, Rajpal & Sons

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• The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Rights, Care, Sin

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• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Hatred, Preparation

  Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Collected Works”

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• A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Unseen, Littles, Way

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.102, Courier Corporation

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• Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  World, Force

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Satyagraha (non-violent Resistance)”

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• Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Age, Apostles

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.160, A&C Black

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• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Art, Training, Dying

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.77, A&C Black

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• An awakened people who rely upon their nonviolent strength are independent in the face of any conceivable combination of the armed powers.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Independent, Rely Upon, People

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• The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Warrior, Active, Incessantly

  Mahatma Gandhi (1951). “Satyagraha: Non-violent Resistance”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Negative Words, Effort

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “Panchayat Raj”

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• All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Together, Earth, Position

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.58, New Directions Publishing

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• If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  People, Doe, Protect

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• We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Liberty, Kingdoms, Dare

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• Nonviolence does not require any outside or outward training.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Training, Doe

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.131, Rajpal & Sons

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• If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Sacrifice, Democracy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Gandhiji Expects: What the Father of the Nation Expected of People's Representatives”

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• To practice nonviolence in mundane matters is to know its true value.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Practice, Matter, Mundane

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.88, Hackett Publishing

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