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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Peace is its own reward.

Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.

Violence is the weapon of weak, non-violence that of the strong.

Non-violence … is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks.

Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.

That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not 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.

Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament.

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.

The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.

If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

War traumatizes soldier and civilian alike; warfare is a profit-making racket; warfare resolves nothing that negotiations can’t resolve better; the weapons we have now make non-violence the only option to planetary annihilation.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is no limit to the capacity of non-violence to generate heat.

When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you.

But the hard facts were that fifty years of non-violence had brought the African people nothing but more and more repressive legislation, and fewer and fewer rights.

I feel Mahatma Gandhi’s non-violence was for the intelligent, educated British.It was not for those who don’t understand this language.

Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

Bullys are the small group who should perish not by voilence, but by non violence, words not fists, thats the awnser to our problem.

It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence.

Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.

The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence.

Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.

The essence of God is consciousness. Consciousness can be used for either violence or peace; the choice is ours. When it is expanded, human consciousness chooses non-violence, since that is compatible with love.

We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience.

Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet.

Compassion is the signature of Higher Consciousness. Non-violence is the tool to evolve into the Higher Consciousness.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

The modern choice is between non-violence or non-existence.