What Gandhi Says Quotes

“The day after, bloody revolutions seem always to disappoint, and in the scramble to the top, those with the most blood on their hands seem always to get there first.”
― Norman G. Finkelstein, What Gandhi Says

“If Gandhi preached simultaneously the virtues of nonviolence and courage, it was because he believed that nonviolence required more courage than violence.”
― Norman G. Finkelstein, What Gandhi Says: About Nonviolence, Resistance and Courage

“لقد اُختُزل غاندي في ابتهالٍ يطابق بين اسمه واللاعنف.”
― أحمد زراقي, What Gandhi Says: About Nonviolence, Resistance and Courage

“True, the annals of humankind appear rife with violence. But, Gandhi contended, this was an optical illusion fostered by scribes and scholars who, by virtue of their profession, took note of the exceptions to the rule: “History is really a record of every interruption of the even working of the force of love or of the soul.”3”
― Norman G. Finkelstein, What Gandhi Says

“It defies belief that, if the groups targeted by Hitler for extermination had practiced noncoercive, nonviolent resistance, they could have quickened his conscience and melted his heart. The only Gandhian strategies possibly effective against a Hitler would be noncooperation on a mass scale, and mobilizing sympathetic public opinion through self suffering, in order, not to tug at his heartstrings, but to politically defeat him.”
― Norman G. Finkelstein, What Gandhi Says: About Nonviolence, Resistance and Courage