Quotes About Nonviolence

Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration.

Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin.

Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.

Study men laying down their lives without hurting anyone else in the cause of their country's freedom.

When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.

In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.

I believe in conversion of mankind, not its destruction.

A nonviolent man cannot desire embarrassment.

Man does not live by destruction.

No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion.

Nonviolence has come among men and it will live. It is the harbinger of the peace of the world.

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

A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance.

Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.

In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his.

I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.

Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.

To have peace in the world, men & nations must embrace the nonviolent assertion that ends and means must cohere.

Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual.

By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality.

It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen.

I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

The force of nonviolence is infinitely more wonderful and subtle than the material forces of nature, like electricity.