Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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

Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.

Do not resist the evil-doer and take no part in doing so, either in the violent deeds of the administration, in the law courts, the collection of taxes, or above all in soldiering, and no one in the world will be able to enslave you.

Nonviolence or soul force does not need physical aids for its propagation of effect.

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

Nonviolence has come among men and it will live. It is the harbinger of the peace of the world.

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

Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.

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.

A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha.

India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.

Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.

Passive resistance is the resistance which does not resist.

Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.

Our aim is not to do things by violence to opponents.

The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.

My satyagrahi spirit tells me that I may not retaliate.

The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification.

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.

We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.

I knew A.J. Muste very well. I tried for a while to be like he was, and that is a total pacifist. But then Margot [my wife] hit me hard in the stomach one day to prove to me that I wasn't as perfect a pacifist as I thought I was.

No confirmed satyagrahi is dismayed by dangers, seen or unseen, from his opponent's side.

Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.