Mahatma Gandhi Passive Quotations

The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.

Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it

If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another, we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies and the world.