Disobedience Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi · Page 2

To die without killing is the badge of a satyagrahi.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Satyagraha is search for Truth, and God is Truth.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A satyagrahi would neither retaliate nor would he submit to the criminal, but seek to cure him by curing himself.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.

— Mahatma Gandhi

What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Active nonviolence is necessary for those who will offer civil disobedience but the will and proper training are enough for the people…

— Mahatma Gandhi

A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Even as satyagraha is a weapon unique of its kind and not one of the ordinary weapons used by people, so is…

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I have repeatedly stated that satyagraha never fails and that one perfect satyagrahi is enough to vindicate Truth.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A satyagrahi has no other stay but God, and he who has any other stay or depends on any other help cannot…

— Mahatma Gandhi

A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

A satyagrahi must ceaselessly strive to realize and live truth. And he must never contemplate hurting anyone by thought, word or deed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.

— Mahatma Gandhi

For a satyagrahi brigade only those are eligible who believe in ahimsa and satya.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Non-co-operation is an attempt to awaken the masses to a sense of their dignity and power.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force.

— Mahatma Gandhi