Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if ‘creed’ is objected to.
Nonviolence to be worth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces.
Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle.
Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute.
Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.
The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.
There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.
You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.
The patriotic spirit demands loyal and strict adherence to nonviolence and truth.
If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.
Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.
What can be richer and more fruitful than a greater fulfillment of the vow of nonviolence in thought, word and deed or the spread of that spirit?
Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief.
The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.
There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.
A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.
The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.
A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible.
Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.
The man or the woman who can display the nonviolence of the brave can easily stand against as external invasion.