Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact.
Nonviolence is his, is his method. Well, my objective is the same as [Martin Luther] King's.
My faith in truth and nonviolence is ever growing, and as I am ever trying to follow them in my life, I too am growing every moment.
Nonviolence is impossible without humility.
Only the brave men and women can bring peace to the world, not by practicing war but by practicing nonviolence.
Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world.
We cherish the conventional story of Dr. King and nonviolence, in fact, precisely because that narrative demands so little of us…This conventional narrative is soothing, moving, and politically acceptable, and has only the disadvantage of bearing no resemblance to what actually happened.
The common factor of all religions is nonviolence.
Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.
Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.
Nonviolence seeks to ‘win’ not by destroying or even by humiliating the adversary, but by convincing [the adversary] that there is a higher and more certain common good than can be attained by bombs and blood. Nonviolence, ideally speaking, does not try to overcome the adversary by winning over [them], but to turn [them] from an adversary into a collaborator by winning [them] over.
Nonviolence requires great patience.
. . . I believe, with Gandhi, that we need to take an imaginative leap forward toward fresh and generous idealism for the sake of all humanity - that we neeed to renew this ancient wisdom of nonviolence, to strive for a disarmed world, and to create a culture of nonviolence.
Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.
For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.
Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.
PRACTICE OF THE Art of Peace is an act of faith, a belief in the ultimate power of nonviolence. It is faith in the power of purification and faith in the power of life itself. It is not a type of rigid discipline or empty asceticism. It is a path that follows natural principles, principles, that must be applied to daily living. The Art of Peace should be practiced from the time you rise to greet the morning to the time you retire at night.
Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored.
I think that violence and nonviolence are not moral principles, they’re tactics.
The longer you practice nonviolence and the meditative qualities of it that you will need, the more likely you are to do something intelligent in any situation.