Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together. — 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
Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence. — 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
The satyagrahi should not have any hatred in his heart against the opponent. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Satyagraha is a force that has come to stay. No force in the world can kill it. — 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
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
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
Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience. — 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
A satyagrahi would neither retaliate nor would he submit to the criminal, but seek to cure him by curing himself. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There must be power in the word of a satyagraha general, not the power that the possession of limitless arms gives, but… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As… — 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
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
Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence. — 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
Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible. — 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
A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
For a satyagrahi brigade only those are eligible who believe in ahimsa and satya. — 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
Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A clear victory of satyagraha is impossible so long as there is ill will. — 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
Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies. — 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 Image
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 Image
So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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 Image
Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
