Mahatma Gandhi

A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.

Mahatma Gandhi

A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.

Mahatma Gandhi

A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia.

Mahatma Gandhi

A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.

Mahatma Gandhi

A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless.

Mahatma Gandhi

A perfect mind comes from a perfect heart, not the heart known by a doctor’s stethoscope but the heart which is the seat of God.

Mahatma Gandhi

A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person’s own nature.

Mahatma Gandhi

A person unbound by vows can never be absolutely relied upon.

Mahatma Gandhi

A person who believes in fighting and does not regard it as violence, though it is violence, is here being asked to kill.

Mahatma Gandhi

A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that can match it.

Mahatma Gandhi