Muhammad Ali Jinnah Quotes

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

The foundation of our movement rests on complete non-violence, whereas violence is the final refuge of the Government. And as no energy can be created without resistance, our nonresistance to Government violence must bring the latter to a standstill.

Gandhi has been assassinated. In my humble opinion, a bloody good thing but far too late.

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin — and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

The question is not whether personal spiritual beliefs shape a politician's values and policies, but what spiritual beliefs mold those values and policies.

Christianity is Platonism for the people.

Politics moves upward into ethics, and ethics ascends to theology.

Civil disobedience is a viable political tactic, and a non-violent tactic.

I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.

If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable.

Gandhi: Ninny of the 20th Century.

What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.

I would ask [protesters] to please respect - I'd ask them to please respect the democratic process.

Atheism cheapens everything it touches - look at the results of communism, the most powerful form of atheism on earth.

There was a period of time when I was very political, when I was at the university. It was like the late '60s, early '70s and I was a dissident like everybody else I guess. Now I follow it but there's nothing that really grabs me. The most fascinating thing to me right now is China.

One of the great things about our democracy is it expresses itself in all sorts of ways. And that includes people protesting. I've been the subject of protests during the course of my eight years and I suspect that there's not a president in our history that at some point hasn't been subject to these protests.

I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men of our time.

I am living testimony to the moral force of non-violence. I know there's nothing weak - nothing passive - nothing naïve - in the creed and lives of Gandhi and King.

Now Jesus, he don't like killing, no matter what the reason is for, and your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore.

Ahimsa is my God, and Truth is my God.

Revolt, it will be said, implies violence; but this is an outmoded, an incompetent conception of revolt. The most effective form of revolt in this violent world we live in is non-violence.

What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom.

They might kill me but they cannot kill Gandhism. If truth can be killed, Gandhism can be killed.

I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable.

Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.