Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.

There is a vital connection between satyagraha and charkha, and the more I find that belief challenged, the more I am confirmed in it.

It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.

Even if masses of people were to burn khadi publicly and say that it is an insane programme, I will declare that those people have gone mad.

Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj.

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

Sooner or later you will have to crush Gandhi and the Indian Congress and all they stand for.

Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle.

Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method.

The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.

I and others may be revolutionaries but we are disciples of Mahatma Gandhi, directly or indirectly, nothing more nothing less.

I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha.

Through Khadi we teach the people the art of civil obedience to an institution which they have built up for themselves.

The power of nonviolent resistance can only come from honest working of the constructive programme.

Not those who shout 'satyagraha', 'satyagraha' will do satyagraha, but those who will work for it.

My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.

If Gandhism means simply mechanically turning the spinning wheel, it deserves to be destroyed.

[People] don't see that there's a great deal of a difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance.

I myself am a very, very peaceful person. Throughout our history, from our own American revolution to the resistance against apartheid in South Africa, to labor strikes in the US, people have resorted to violence to achieve a more progressive society, from time to time.

Nonviolence which to me is the glory of Hinduism, has been sought to be explained away by our people as being meant for the sanyasis only.

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

Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.

Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.

Satyagraha as conceived by me is a science in the making.

Satyagraha is an opera which I wrote for the Netherlands Opera, so it uses an orchestra of around fifty, a chorus of forty, and there are about seven soloists. The opera ... Satyagraha means truthful, so it was a name [Mahatma] Gandhi used to describe his civil disobedience movement.