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Gandhi – Non-Violence in Peace and War

Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter-hatred only increases the surface as well as the depth of hatred. II – 97

There is no escape for any of us save through truth and non-violence. I know that war is wrong, is an unmitigated evil. I know too that it has got to go. I firmly believe that freedom won through bloodshed or fraud is no freedom. I – 75

Non-violence is the supreme law. During my half-century of experience I have not yet come across a situation when I had to say that I was helpless, that I had no remedy in terms of non-violence. I – 172

I know this cannot be proved by argument. It shall be proved by persons living it in their lives with utter disregard of consequences to themselves. I – 122

The ideal of satyagraha is not meant for the select few – the saint and the seer only; it is meant for all. I – 34

To me it is a self-evident truth that if freedom is to be shared equally by all – even physically the weakest, the lame and the halt – they must able to contribute an equal share in it defense. How that can be possible when reliance is placed on armaments, my plebeian mind fails to understand. I therefore swear and shall continue to swear by non-violence, i.e., by satyagraha, or soul force. In it physical incapacity is no handicap, and even a frail woman or a child can pit herself or himself on equal terms against a giant armed with the most powerful weapons. II – 35

Without the recognition of non-violence on a national scale there is no such thing as a constitutional or democratic government. I – 199

I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics. The whole gamut of man’s activities today constitutes an indivisible whole. You cannot divide social, economic, political and purely religious work into watertight compartments. I – 170
 
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 non-violence. I – 335

You are no satyagrahis if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death. You must protect him even at the cost of your own life. II – 63

The virtues of mercy, non-violence, love and truth in any man can be truly tested only when they are pitted against ruthlessness, violence, hate and untruth. II – 85

If one has pride and egoism, there is no non-violence. Non-violence is impossible without humility. My own experience is that whenever I have acted non-violently I have been led to it and sustained in it by the higher promptings of an unseen power. Through my own will I should have miserable failed. I – 187

Truth and non-violence are not possible without a living belief in God, meaning a self-existent, all-knowing, living Force which inheres in every other force known to the world and which depends on none, and which will live when all other forces may conceivably perish or cease to act. I am unable to account for my life without belief in this all-embracing living Light. II – 212

The root of satyagraha is in prayer. A satyagrahi relies upon God for protection against the tyranny of brute force. II – 62

My greatest weapon is my mute prayer. I – 251

My faith in the saying that what is gained by the sword will also be lost by the sword is imperishable. I – 211
 
Jesus was the most active resister known perhaps to history. This was non-violence par excellence. II – 16
 
If non-violence does not appeal to your heart, you should discard it. II – 134

– from Mohandas K. Gandhi, Non-Violence in Peace and War, 1948.