Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.
If people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of its shortage.
Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.
Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for violence in the near or distant future.
The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.
Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed.
Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.
Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.
Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.
The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success.
We become Godlike to the extent we realize nonviolence, but we can never become wholly God.
History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.
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.
A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.
Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world.
We may not go about parroting truth and nonviolence and steering clear of them in our daily life.
The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.
Active nonviolence is necessary for those who will offer civil disobedience but the will and proper training are enough for the people to co-operate with those who are chosen for civil disobedience.
If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment’s purchase.
If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.