Civil disobedience Quote by Mahatma Gandhi Download Open image “Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity.” — Mahatma Gandhi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civil disobedience Disobedience Pure Purification Purity
Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience has almost always been about expression. Generally, it's nonviolent, as defined by Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, and King. — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
It's necessary to maintain a state of disobedience against...everything. — Alice Notley Copy Share Image
I believe in civil disobedience among other forms of resistance in times when it's called for. — William Kunstler Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is, in fact, a conservative idea, a few steps short of overt rebellion. It honors the rule of law by insisting on… — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is… — Al Gore 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
[Putin] is a bully. And bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically. — Kelly Ayotte Copy Share Image
The world - and America - has been defined by people who haven't necessarily abided by the laws and the rules. Civil disobedience is… — Rory Kennedy Copy Share Image
When you say 'no' and you get on the streets and you do an act of civil disobedience, it changes your psychology. — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the Voting Rights… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI. — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his country where… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The only word these corporations know is more,” wrote Chris Hedges, former correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, and the New York… — Jim Marrs Copy Share Image
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image