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Disobedience Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

93 Disobedience quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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A satyagrahi draws strength from within, not from outside help. The quotes describe civil disobedience as open, nonviolent, and a way to educate the public while refusing to surrender to brute force. They also compare a mass movement to an earthquake that shakes the political landscape.

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Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible.

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Satyagraha is a purely spiritual weapon.

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Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.

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A satyagrahi should have a living faith in God.

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Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together.

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A satyagrahi has infinite patience, abundant faith in others, and ample hope.

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Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.

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Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within…

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The word 'defeat' is not to be found in my dictionary, and everyone who is selected as a recruit in my army…

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The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to…

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

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There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible…

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There must be power in the word of a satyagraha general, not the power that the possession of limitless arms gives, but…

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The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to…

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Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government,…

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Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As…

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Satyagraha is a force that has come to stay. No force in the world can kill it.

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The satyagrahi should not have any hatred in his heart against the opponent.

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Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity.

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Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.

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A satyagrahi is nothing if not instinctively law-abiding.

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Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention.

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Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.

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Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.

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Satyagraha is search for Truth, and God is Truth.

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

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Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral.

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Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.

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To die without killing is the badge of a satyagrahi.

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A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha.

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Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.

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