A clear victory of satyagraha is impossible so long as there is ill will. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence. — 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
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
A satyagrahi loves his so-called enemy even as he loves his friend. He has no enemy. — 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
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
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a… — 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
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-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
A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence. — 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
Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The method of satyagraha requires that the satyagrahi should never lose hope, so long as there is the slightest ground left for… — 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
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
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had… — 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
Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Satyagraha thrives on repression till at last the repressor is tired of it and the object of satyagraha is gained. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Satyagraha does not depend on outside help, it derives all its strength from within. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still. — 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
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
