Non Violence Quotes

If one is in search of a better job, it does not help to burn down, the factory. If one needs more adequate education, shooting the principal will not help. If housing is the goal, only building and construction will produce that end. To destroy anything, person or property, cannot bring us closer to the goal that we seek.

To believe in nonviolence does not mean that violence will not be inflicted upon you. The believer in nonviolence is the person who will willingly allow himself to be the victim of violence but will never inflict violence upon another.

The truth is that Gandhi-ism and all it stands for will, sooner or later, have to be grappled with, and finally crushed. It is no use trying to satisfy a tiger by feeding him with cat's-meat. The sooner this is realised, the less trouble and misfortune will there be for all concerned.

I've never, ever, raised a fist to anybody in my life.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

He who injures living beings is not noble. He is called noble because he is gentle and kind towards all living beings.

All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.

As I am, so are these. As are these, so am I. Drawing the parallel to yourself, neither kill nor get others to kill.

When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.

Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence.

My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force.

By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.

History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.

Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.

If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.

Non-violence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

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

Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.

A rabbit that runs away from the bull-terrier is not particularly non-violent.

Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.