Mahatma Gandhi Violence Quotations [Page 2]

Humankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter - hatred only increases the surface as well as the depth of hatred.

Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic

Violence begins with the fork.

Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed.

In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled treatment.

Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence.

Strictly speaking, no activity and no industry is possible without a certain amount of violence, no matter how little. Even the very process of living is impossible without a certain amount of violence. What we have to do is to minimize it to the greatest extent possible.

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.

Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness

Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

Poverty is the greatest violence.

Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.

Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love ...

I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.

It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.

What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength.

I have an implicit faith ... that mankind can only be saved through non-violence, which is the central teaching of the Bible, as I have understood the Bible.

My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities.

Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.

A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us.

Just as there are signs by which you can recognize violence with the naked eye, so is the spinning wheel to me a decisive sign of nonviolence.

What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.

Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi-wearer will harbour no violence, no deceit, no impurity.