For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed… Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The time is fast coming when politicians will cease to fear the religion of humanity and humanitarians will find entrance into political… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I care so deeply about this matter that I'm willing to take on the legal penalties, to sit in this prison cell,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
The life of millions is my politics, from which I dare not free myself without denying my life-work and God. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Do not concentrate on showing the misdeeds of the government, for we have to convert and befriend those who run it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Non-co-operation in the political field is an extension of the doctrine as it is practised in the domestic field. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I have not hesitated to call the system of Government under which we are labouring 'satanic' and I withdraw naught out of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Withholding of payment of taxes is one of the quickest methods of overthrowing a government. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Non-co-operation enables us to show that in everything that matters we can be independent of the Government. — 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 speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting… — 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 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
