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Narcotics

An opium-eater may argue the advantage of opium-eating from the fact that he began to understand the evil of the opium habit after having eaten it.

X-27

No one who has wisdom will ever touch opium, liquor or any intoxicants.

MM-376

He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a mans soul and reduce him to a level lower than that of beasts.

XXV-555

Nation National Nationalism

No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attaching to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

T-2-13

That nation is great which rests its head upon death as its pillow.

X-51

No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.

T-2-139

Nations are not formed in a day, the formation requires years.

X-12

No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators.

EWE-9

Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called.

T-2-333

Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.

XXV-487

When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of Ahimsa is to stop the war.

TIG-40

A nation that is unfit to fight cannot from experience prove the virtue of not fighting.

XIV-463

I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.

XXV-336

Non-co-operation is the nations notice that it is no longer satisfied to be in tutelage.

T-2-46

Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation.

T-8-65

Indias coming to her own will mean every nation doing likewise.

T-2-327

I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.

XXVI-279

A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within.

T-6-27

If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.

T-5-272

The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.

T-5-75

We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has travelled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the very foundation of the whole nation.

T-3-182

My national service is part of my training for freeing my soul from bondage of flesh.

MM-13

The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.

XXVI-49

A national spirit is necessary for the national existence. A flag is a material aid to the development of such a spirit.

XXVI-544

I would make compulsory a proper singing, in company, of national songs.

T-2-8

Between the two, the nationalist and the imperialist, there is no meeting ground.

T-5-238

Nationalism, like virtue, was its own reward.

T-8-98

National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being.

XXVI-275

I do regard spinning and weaving as the necessary part of any national system of education.

XXVI-275

Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive.

T-2-64

My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual.

T-3-72

My nationalism is as broad as my Swadeshi. I want Indias rise so that the whole world may benefit.

XXVI-279

My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, that if need be the whole of the country may die so that the human race may live.

T-2-200

Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life.

XXVI-369

Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is the curse.

XXV-369

Hatred is not essential for nationalism Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.

T-2-200

Nature

Nature abhors weakness.

T-2-240

The Laws of Nature are changeless, unchangeable, and there are no miracles in the sense of infringement or interruption of Natures laws.

TIG-23

Behind the magnificent and kaleidoscopic variety, one discovers in nature a unity of purpose, design and form which is equally unmistakable.

T-2-215

I refuse to buy from anybody anything, however nice or beautiful, if it interferes with my growth or injures those whom Nature has made my first care.

XXVI-279

Nature has implanted in the human breast ability to cope with any difficulty or suffering that may come to man unprovoked.

X-53

We may utilize the gifts or nature just as we choose but in her books the debits are always equal to the credits.

MM-199

Nature Cure

In nature cure, everybody can be his or her own doctor, not so in the various systems of medicine.

TIG-1

Nature cure implies that the treatment should be the cheapest and the simplest possible.

MM-393

Nature cure does mean a change for the better in ones outlook on life itself.

MM-394

The man who accepts nature cure never begs.

MM-394

Non-Co-Operation

Non-co-operation is the quickest method of creating public opinion.

MM-344

Non-co-operation means refusal both to help the sinner in his sin and to accept any help or gift from him till he has repented.

XX-34

Non-co-operation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil.

MM-179

Non-co-operation is an attempt to awaken the masses to a sense of their dignity and power.

MM-179

Non-co-operation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the positive views.

T-2-11

Non-co-operation is a movement intended to invite Englishmen to co-operate with us on honourable terms or retire from our land.

T-2-40

Non-co-operation is the nations determination to improve.

T-2-27

Nonviolent non-co-operation with evil means co-operation with all that is good.

T-7-157

Non-co-operation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice.

T-2-25

Non-co-operation with evil is as much a duty as co-operation with good.

T-2-45

Non-co-operation in itself is unnatural, vicious and sinful.

T-2-149

Non-co-operation is the nations notice that it is no longer satisfied to be in tutelage.

T-2-46

Non-co-operation intended to pave the way to real honourable and voluntary co-operation based on mutual respect and trust.

XX-162

Non-co-operation in the political field is an extension of the doctrine as it is practised in the domestic field.

XX-61

Non-co-operation enables us to show that it everything that matters we can be independent of the Government.

XX-131

Refusal of military service is more superficial than non-co-operation with the system which supports the state.

T-3-145

When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace.

XXV-393

It is the nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of ones ways.

XXV-392

The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification.

XX-17

The Bhagavadgita is gospel of non-co-operation between the forces of darkness and those of light.

MM-179

The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.

XX-17

Real non-co-operation is non-co-operation with evil and not with the evil-doer.

T-2-200

At times, non-co-operation becomes as much as duty as co-operation.

T-5-276

Total nonviolent non-co-operation becomes as much a duty so co-operation.

T-7-149

Our peaceful non-co-operation must needs be constructive, not destructive.

XXV-139

Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak.

T-2-64

The nations non-co-operation is an invitation to the Government to co-operate with it on its own terms, as is every nations right and every good governments duty.

T-2-46

I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side with violence.

T-2-6

Non-co-operation is not a movement of drag, bluster of bluff.

T-2-34

Non-co-operation is not a hymn of hate.

T-2-200

Non-co-operation in an angry atmosphere is an impossibility.

T-2-12

My faith in non-co-operation is as bright as ever.

XXV-336

Behind my non-operation there is always the keenest desire to co-operate on the slightest pretext even with the worst opponents.

MM-183

I was a co-operator too in the sense that I non-co-operated for co-operation, and even then I said that if I could carry the country forward by co-operation I should co-operate.

T-4-155

In the very act of my non-co-operation, I am seeking their co-operation in my campaign.

T-3-196

My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.

T-2-64

My non-co-operation is a token of my earnest longing for real heart co-operation in the place of co-operation falsely so called.

T-2-382

Reasoned and willing obedience to the laws of the State is the first lesson in non-co-operation.

XXV-560

I retain the opinion that council entry is inconsistent with non-co-operation as I conceive it.

T-2-128

I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial.

T-2-6

Nonviolent non-co-operation, I am convinced, is a sacred duty at times.

T-2-149

Nonviolent non-co-operators can only succeed when they have succeeded in attaining control over the hooligans of India.

T-2-83

Non-co-operators will make a serious mistake if they seek to convert people to their creed by violence.

XX-110

It is the duty of a non-co-operator to preach disaffection towards the existing order of things. Non-co-operators are but giving disciplined expression to a nations outraged feelings.

XX-128

We must treat arrest as the normal condition of the life of a non-co-operator.

T-2-52

Though a non-co-operator, I shall gladly subscribe to a bill to make it criminal for anybody to call me mahatma and to touch my feet.

T-2-257

Nonviolent non-co-operation was the only alternative to anarchy and worse.

T-2-149

Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.

T-2-42

Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil.

T-2-100

That parrots non-co-operation with the cage, with its master, will live for ever because it looks upon renunciation, non-co-operation, as a joy.

XXV-445

For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering.

T-2-5

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.

XXV-489

Nonviolence

Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances.

T-5-135

Nonviolence is impossible without humility.

T-5-12

Nonviolence is like the radium in its action.

T-4-290

Nonviolence succeeds only when we have a real living faith in God.

T-5-14

Nonviolence is a quality not of the body but of the soul.

T-4-294

Nonviolence or soul force too does not need physical aids for its propagation of effect.

T-4-290

Nonviolence is an active force of the highest order. It is soul force or the power of the godhead within us.

T-4-290

Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills.

MM-25

Nonviolence abhors fear and therefore, secrecy.

T-5-24

True nonviolence is mightier than the mightiest violence.

T-4-252

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.

T-5-136

Nonviolence is the summit of bravery.

T-2-131

Nonviolence is impossible without self-purification.

T-5-190

Perfect nonviolence is difficult. It admits no weakness.

T-5-115

Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence.

T-7-2

Nonviolence requires great patience.

T-5-233

The common factor of all religions is nonviolence.

XXV-169

Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.

TIG-39

Science of nonviolence can alone lead one to pure democracy.

MM-131

There can be no nonviolence offered by the militarily strong.

MM-137

At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self-acting.

T-4-49

Our has not been unadulterated nonviolence in thought, word and deed.

T-3-298

Without real nonviolence, there would be perfect anarchy.

T-5-224

The Charkha is an outward symbol of truth and nonviolence.

T-5-265

Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and the bravest.

T-4-253

Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be any improvement on the technique of violence.

T-7-67

God has blessed me with the mission to place nonviolence before the nation for adoption.

T-5-210

Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller.

T-5-249

Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defense.

T-5-249

Nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence is permitted for self-defense.

T-5-249

Nonviolence is an attribute of the Almighty whose ways of fulfilling himself are inscrutable.

T-6-12

In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his.

T-6-24

In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.

MM-132

Jesus was the most active resister known perhaps to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.

MGCG-301

The science of war leads one to dictatorship pure and simple; science of non-violence can alone lead one to pure democracy.

T-4-280

Unexampled bravery, born of nonviolence, coupled with strict honesty shown by a fair number of Muslims, was sure to infect the whole of India.

T-8-176

You can return blow for blow if you are not brave enough to follow the path of nonviolence.

MM-20

Nonviolence to be a creed has to be all-pervasive.

T-4-41

Nonviolence requires more than the courage of the soldier of war.

XXV-437

Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly, The coward is innocent of it.

XXV-138

Nonviolence is the means, the end for everyone is complete independence.

MM-132

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from [the] soul-destroying heat [of violence].

T-3-12

Mankind has to get out of violence only through nonviolence.

T-7-144

A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.

T-5-16

Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative.

MOG-14

Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negatives the fact.

MOG-14

It is much more difficult to live for nonviolence than to die for it.

T-5-4

The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.

T-5-172

The force of nonviolence is infinitely more wonderful and subtle than the material forces of nature, like electricity.

T-3-11

Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its matures fruit. It is contained in Truth, but isnt self-evident.

MOG-14

The propagation of truth and nonviolence can be done less by books than by actually living on those principles.

T-5-93

Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.

T-2-5

Nonviolence which is a quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

T-5-273

Nonviolence is polities is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored.

T-4-205

Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.

T-5-170

Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if creed is objected to.

T-5-289

Nonviolence to be wroth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces.

T-4-143

Nonviolence is an attribute of the soul, and, therefore, to be practised by everybody in all the affairs of life.

T-5-246

Nonviolence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon of the brave.

T-7-30

Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.

T-4-141

Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle.

T-4-142

Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute.

MM-112

Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than and superior to brute force.

MM-113

Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.

T-4-289

Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.

T-4-236

The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.

MM-126

The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it.

T-5-256

There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.

T-7-95

You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.

M-369

If one does not practise nonviolence in ones own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken.

T-5-11

The patriotic spirit demands loyal and strict adherence to nonviolence and truth.

T-2-92

If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.

T-2-92

Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb glows out of nonviolence.

XIV-299

Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.

T-4-41

If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way.

T-5-213

Just as there are signs by which you can recognize violence with the naked eye, so is the spinning wheel to me a decisive sign of nonviolence.

T-5-277

What can be richer and more fruitful than a greater fulfillment of the vow of non-violence in thought, word and deed or the spread of that spirit?

T-2-86

Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove a source of infinite mischief.

T-4-25

The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.

T-7-404

There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.

T-4-267

The first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance and loving kindness.

T-4-236

The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.

T-4-252

Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil.

T-2-100

The first condition of non-violence is justice all round in every department of life.

T-5-278

The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than force of all the arms invented by mans ingenuity.

T-5-281

Civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.

T-5-209

The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.

T-2-5

A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible.

T-5-214

Creation of effective public opinion depended on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and non-violence.

T-8-11

The man or the woman who can display this non-violence of the brave can easily stand against as external invasion.

T-5-298

Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.

T-2-52

If the people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of shortage.

T-8-40

I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.

T-7-14

Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.

T-6-17

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.

T-6-4

The way out of the riots, on the one had, the British bayonets on the other is frank acceptance of nonviolence.

T-5-238

The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.

T-5-209

Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed.

MM-114

If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman.

T-3-33

Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practise, weak as we are.

MM-153

Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practise.

T-6-29

Nonviolence 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.

T-8-281

Non-violence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also s social virtue to be cultivated like the other virtues.

T-5-18

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.

T-4-278

A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God-given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that can match it.

T-4-297

We become Godlike to the extent we realize nonviolence, but we can never become wholly God.

MM-115

History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.

MM-149

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.

T-4-161

Nonviolence in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.

MM-27

A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.

MM-122

There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.

T-130

Our nonviolence is respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.

T-5-187

Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between tow combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.

XXV-391

When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is, nonviolence.

T-3-144

Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with ahimsa, reject as non-Hindu.

XXVI-374

Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activist forces you have in the world.

T-3-145

Truth and nonviolence are no cloistered virtues but are applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market-place.

T-4-161

We may not go about parroting truth and nonviolence and steering clear of them in our daily life.

T-5-180

The practice of truth and nonviolence melted the religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.

T-5-225

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.

T-5-281

If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and non-violence, democracy would not be worth a moment' purchase.

T-4-156

To one who reads the spirit of the Gita, it teaches the secret of nonviolence, the secret of realizing self though the physical body.

MOG-16

If what passed as nonviolence did not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it did not enable the women to protect their own honour, it was not nonviolence.

T-7-30

It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

T-4-291

When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.

MM-113

An awakened people who rely upon their nonviolent strength are independent in the face of any conceivable combination of the armed powers.

T-5-19

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.

MM-126

A rabbit that runs away from the bull-terrier is not particularly non-violent.

T-2-131

Carrying arms for the removal of Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence.

T-2-279

Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.

T-2-31

The panoplies warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.

T-3-145

Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.

MM-265

All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.

MM-130

We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.

T-2-85

Nonviolence does not require any outside or outward training.

MM-126

To practise nonviolence in mundane matters is to know its true value.

MM-129

Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home.

MM-126

That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society.

MM-127

Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, it demands the greatest exercise of faith.

T-5-17

Our nonviolence vis-avis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.

MM-349

When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.

T-8-140

Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.

T-5-80

Unless we learn this lesson of nonviolence fully, we shall never do away with the deadly feuds which have been the curse of the Frontier* people.

T-5-302

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

MM-23

My nonviolence is made of stern stuff. It is firmer than the firmest metal known to the scientists.

T-5-169

Non-violence, which to me is the chief glory of Hinduism, has been sought to be explained away by our people as being meant for the sanyasis only.

T-7-272

My nonviolence demands universal love, and you ** are not a small part of it.

Addressed to

T-5-295

My nonviolence bids me dedicate myself to the service of minorities.

T-7-385

My non-violence is not merely kindness to all the living creatures.

T-7-128

My non-violence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.

MM-148

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* The North-west Frontier of Pre-partition India

** Addressed to every Briton.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence, Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.

XXV-558

My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane.

MM-118

My creed of non-violence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers.

T-3-62

My faith in truth and non-violence is ever growing, and as I am ever trying to follow them in my life, I too am growing every moment.

T-4-154

My life is dedicated to the service of India through the religion of non-violence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.

T-2-6

My mission is to covert every Indian, even Englishmen, and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious.

T-5-221

My dharma teaches me for the sake of others to give my life without even attempting to kill.

XXV-437

To my mind, Swaraj based on non-violence is the fulfillment of the constructive programme.

T-6-16

To me Truth is God and there is no way to find Truth except the way of non-violence.

T-2-235

For me the only certain means of knowing God is non-violence, ahimsa love.

T-2-126

Truth is my God. I can only search Him through non-violence and in on other way.

T-3-298

Since propagation of non-violence is the mission of my life, I must pursue it in all weathers.

T-5-287

The spinning wheel is the symbol of non-violence for me.

T-5-290

Religion of non-violence is not meant merely for the rishis and saints.

T-2-5

My non-violence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected.

T-2-131

My creed of non-violence is an extremely active force.

MM-143

For me non-violence is an extremely active force.

MM-143

For me non-violence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.

T-5-287

If my non-violence is to be contagious and infectious, I must acquire greater control over my thoughts.

MM-277

My implicit faith in non-violence does mean yielding to minorities when they are really weak.

MM-343

It is my unshakable belief that Indias destiny is to deliver the message of non-violence to mankind.

T-4-41

Every moment of my existence is dedicated to the winning of Swaraj by means of truth and non-violence.

T-3-79

All my experiments in ahimsa have taught me that non-violence in practice means common labour with the body.

T-5-225

To my mind, the most perfect demonstration of non-violence was in champran.*

T-5-191

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* A district of Bihar.

The only virtue I want to claim is truth and non-violence.

T-2-84

I have no weapon but non-violence.

XXV-423

I shall, of course, die with non-violence on my lips.

T-5-265

I believe in the capacity of India to offer non-violent battle to the English rulers.

XXV-489

I am a seasoned soldier of non-violence, and I have evidence enough to sustain my faith.

T-5-222

I will not have the power of non-violence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses.

T-5-169

I can no more preach non-violence to a cowardly man than I can temp a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.

T-2-131

I have been practising with scientific precision non-violence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.

T-5-295

I have recognised that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.

MM-148

The non-violence I teach is active non-violence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.

XXVI-140

There is nothing on earth that I would not give up for the sake of the country, excepting, of course, two things and two only, namely, truth and non-violence.

T-2-235

If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of non-violence.

T-5-291

There is nothing on earth that I would not give up for the sake of the country, excepting, of course, two things and two only, namely, truth and non-violence.

T-2-235

The non-violent man automatically becomes a servant of God.

T-4-257

The nation cannot be kept on the non-violent path by violence.

MM-153

The power of non-violent resistance can only come from honest working of the constructive programme.

T-5-226

Non-violent defense presupposes recklessness about ones life and property.

T-5-282

A non-violent fight is sharp as the edge of a sword, sharpened on the whetstone of heart.

T-5-111

Non-violent action means mobilization of the world opinion in our favour.

T-5-267

Non-violent action without the co-operation of the heart and the head cannot produce the intended result.

T-5-132

Non-violent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.

T-2-83

Non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for that pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness.

XXV-473

Non-violent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life.

XXV-369

A non-violent persons life is always at the disposal of him who would take it.

XXV-437

A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia.

XXVI-140

Non-violence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.

T-2-42

A non-violent occupation is thus that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.

MM-265

A society or a nation constructed non-violently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within.

T-6-27

A non-violent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.

MM-257

The end of non-violent war is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent.

T-5-257

For a non-violent person, the whole world is one family. He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him.

T-5-304

No man could be actively non-violent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.

T-5-276

Nonviolent life was an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by the individual, group or a nation.

T-7-321

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.

T-4-298

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.

T-4-298

A non-violent revolution is not a programme of "seizure of power" but it is a programme of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power.

T-7-29

If all were non-violent, there could be no anarchy and there would be no question of anybody arming for meeting aggression from without.

T-5-287

If we are non-violent through and through, our non-violence would have been self-evident.

T-3-298

Those who are truthful, non-violent and brave-violent soldiers is likely some day to multiply itself.

T-5-304

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with non-violent structure of society.

MM-137

With their own exploitation, boycott of foreign cloth through picketing may easily be violent; throuth the use of khadi it is most natural and absolutely non-violent.

T-4-10

Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is non-violent.

T-5-316

The Congress fights not with violent but with non-violent means, however imperfect, however crude the non-violence may be.

T-5-167

A truly non-violent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance.

T-7-30

Those who have their hands dyed deep in blood cannot build a non-violent order for the world.

T-7-5

A non-violent action accompanied by non-violence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.

T-5-130

A non-violent warrior knows no leaving the battle. He rushes into the mouth of Himsa, never even once harbouring a evil thought.

T-5-116

It is the nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will mean one from the error of ones ways.

T-7-157

Nonviolent non-co-operation, I am convinced, is sacred duty at times.

T-2-149

Nonviolent non-co-operation was the only alternative to anarchy and worse.

T-2-149

Nonviolent, non-co-operators can only succeed when they have succeeded in attaining control over the hooligans of India.

T-2-83

Total non-violent non-cooperation has no place in popular Raj, whatever its level may be.

T-7-149

The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West.

MM-182

For a nonviolent struggle, there is no such age limit. The blind, the maimed and the bed-ridden may serve, and not only men but women also.

T-4-141

Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within the states or in British India.

T-5-71