Civil disobedience Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi