Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Non-cooperation is beyond the reach of the bayonet. It has found an abiding place in the Indian heart. Workers like me will go when the hour has struck, but non-cooperation will remain.

Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.

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

This campaign of non-cooperation has no reference to diplomacy, secret or open. The only diplomacy it admits of is the statement and pursuance of truth at any cost.

In satyagraha, a courted imprisonment carries its own praise.

Passive resistance and boycotting are now prominent features of every great national movement.

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

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

Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.

I think we brought to the world, the United States anyway, the whole idea of boycotting as a nonviolent tactic. I think we showed the world that nonviolence can work to make social change.

I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial.

Non-co-operation is a movement intended to invite Englishmen to co-operate with us on honourable terms or retire from our land.

The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.

The lyrics stand today (1980). They're still my feeling about politics. I want to see the plan. I want to know what you're going to do after you've knocked it all down. I mean, can't we use some of it? What's the point of bombing Wall Street? If you want to change the system, change the system. It's no good shooting people.

Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible.

For mass struggles, nonviolence is essential.

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

All struggle, all resistance is -- must be -- concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If not here, then there. If not now, then soon. Elsewhere as well as here.

In the very act of my non-co-operation, I am seeking their co-operation in my campaign.

Non-cooperation is an attempt to awaken the masses, to a sense of their dignity and power. This can only be done by enabling them to realise that they need not fear brute force, if they but know the soul within.

For a nonviolent struggle, there is no age limit. The blind, the maimed and the bed-ridden may serve, and not only men but women also.

Active nonviolence is necessary for those who will offer civil disobedience but the will and proper training are enough for the people to co-operate with those who are chosen for civil disobedience.

Non-co-operation is a nation's determination to improve.

Non-co-operation intended to pave the way to real honourable and voluntary co-operation based on mutual respect and trust.

I organized tax resistance in 1965, with a friend. I kept at it for about ten years. I don't see it as a principle, it's a tactic. And I felt I had exhausted its potential as a tactic right about then, so I stopped.