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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
Oct 1, 2025
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate... Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate.
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy... In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor.
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
That's all nonviolence is - organized love.
The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.
We may never be strong enough to be entirely non-violent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep non-violence as our goal and make steady progress towards it.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.
Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.