Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

Passive resistance is the resistance which does not resist.

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

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

It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war.

Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.

In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force.

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

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.

Gandhi was inevitable. If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable. He lived, thought and acted, inspired by the vision of humanity evolving toward a world of peace and harmony. We may ignore Gandhi at our own risk.

Satyagraha thrives on repression till at last the repressor is tired of it and the object of satyagraha is gained.

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

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

Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.

Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence.

The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both.

I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection. - Hind Swaraj

Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within the states or in British India.

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

Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.