Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.
A nonviolent person’s life is always at the disposal of him who would take it.
A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia.
A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.
A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.
The end of nonviolent ‘war’ is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent.
A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.
In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file.
If all were nonviolent, there would be no anarchy and there would be no question of anybody being armed for meeting aggression from without.
If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.
Those who are truthful, nonviolent and brave do not cease to be so because of the stupidity of their leader.
Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society.
Boycott of foreign cloth through picketing may easily be violent; through the use of khadi it is most natural and absolutely nonviolent.
Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.
The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.
A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance.
Those who have their hands dyed deep in blood cannot build a nonviolent order for the world.
A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.
A nonviolent warrior knows no leaving the battle. He rushes into the mouth of himsa, never even once harbouring an evil thought.
Total nonviolent non-cooperation has no place in popular Raj, whatever its level may be.