Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No confirmed satyagrahi is dismayed by dangers, seen or unseen, from his opponent's side. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A satyagrahi loves his so-called enemy even as he loves his friend. He has no enemy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Active nonviolence is necessary for those who will offer civil disobedience but the will and proper training are enough for the people… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Non-cooperation is an attempt to awaken the masses, to a sense of their dignity and power. This can only be done by… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Even as satyagraha is a weapon unique of its kind and not one of the ordinary weapons used by people, so is… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I have repeatedly stated that satyagraha never fails and that one perfect satyagrahi is enough to vindicate Truth. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A satyagrahi has no other stay but God, and he who has any other stay or depends on any other help cannot… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Non-co-operation is an attempt to awaken the masses to a sense of their dignity and power. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
For a satyagrahi brigade only those are eligible who believe in ahimsa and satya. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A satyagrahi must ceaselessly strive to realize and live truth. And he must never contemplate hurting anyone by thought, word or deed. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention." — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
