Dying is more honorable than killing.

The modern choice is between non-violence or non-existence.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength.

The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die, he will not even desire to offer violence. Indeed, I may put it down as a self-evident proposition that the desire to kill is in inverse proportion to the desire to die. And history is replete with instances of men who by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.

Non-violence is a weapon of the strong.

Non-violence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-cooperation with evil.

The point of nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink. A platform which stands a few feet above napalm, torture, exploitation, poison gas, A and H bombs, the works.

That's all non-violence is-organized love.

We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations. That at any rate is my dream. I shall live and die in trying to realize it. My faith helps me to discover new truths every day.

Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.

It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.

I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.

We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.

I wanted to avoid violence. Non-violence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

If blood be shed, let it be our blood. Cultivate the quiet courage of dying without killing. For man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love ...

Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

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