Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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

For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering.

nonviolence first changes the individual.

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

Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances.

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

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

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

Nonviolent non-co-operators can only succeed when they have succeeded in attaining control over the hooligans of India.

Passive resistance is the resistance which does not resist.

Civil disobedience has almost always been about expression. Generally, it's nonviolent, as defined by Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, and King.

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

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

Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non­resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self­suffering.

Nonviolence to be worth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces.

Nonviolence is a quality not of the body but of the soul.

Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.

Nonviolent non-co-operation is the only alternative to anarchy and worse.

Total nonviolent non-cooperation has no place in popular Raj, whatever its level may be.

There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.

It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.

Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.

Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity.

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

Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith.