Quotes About Nonviolence

One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.

While opposing injustice nonviolently, he (Gandhi) insisted, is always morally superior to opposing it violently, opposing injustice violently is still morally superior to doing nothing to oppose it at all.

essence of nonviolence was a refusal to retaliate against evil, a refusal based on the realization that "the law of retaliation is the law of the multiplication of evil.

the Negro must come to the point of refusing to cooperate with evil," but without ever hating the evildoers. "I have no malice toward anyone, not even the white policeman who almost broke my arm, who choked and kicked me. Let there be no malice among you.

I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.

Nonviolence succeeds only when we have a real living faith in God.

God has blessed me with the mission to place nonviolence before the nation for adoption.

A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.

Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.

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

Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God.

The votary of ahimsa has only one fear, that is, of God.

Nonviolence is an attribute of the Almighty whose ways of fulfilling Himself are inscrutable.

To me Truth is God and there is no way to find Truth except the way of nonviolence.

A satyagrahi should have a living faith in God.

God is the shield of the nonviolent.

Satyagraha is search for Truth, and God is Truth.

God is a peaceful ground of being. He is the energy of nonviolence. To ask Him to help is to ask Him to turn us into profoundly peaceful people.

I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle.

Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution.

If we can refrain from harming others in our actions & words, we can start to give serious attention to actively doing good.

Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.

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

Our nonviolence vis-?-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.