Mahatma Gandhi

Leader of India's non-violent movement.

Known for his leadership in the Indian independence movement, he championed nonviolent resistance as a powerful tool for social and political change. His philosophy of Satyagraha, or passive resistance, emphasized truth and nonviolence as foundational principles. His efforts and moral integrity inspired many around the world and led to India's eventual independence from British rule in 1947. His legacy extends beyond politics into the realms of civil rights and social justice, with his methods influencing global movements for equality and freedom.

Mahatma Gandhi Quotes about Nonviolence

My implicit faith in nonviolence does mean yielding to minorities when they are really weak.
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Is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater courage? Without her, man would not be. If nonviolence is to be the law of our being, the future is with women.
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The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominates of men and women.
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Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.
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Nonviolence or soul force does not need physical aids for its propagation of effect.
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Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact.
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Enter with me into the sufferings, not only of the people of India but of the whole world. Nonviolence is a more active and real fight against wickedness than retaliation whose very nature is to increase wickedness. It is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.
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Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be.
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The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.
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Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence.
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A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.
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To practice nonviolence in mundane matters is to know its true value.
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I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her.
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You can return blow for blow if you are not brave enough to follow the path of nonviolence.
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My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world.
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India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial.
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