Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Real non-co-operation is non-co-operation with evil and not with the evil-doer.

Dissociate yourselves from the satanic administration, and you will bring it to its knees. You will not have to lift a finger, let alone a stick or stone.

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

Non-co-operation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice.

It's the reason why I am always interested in engaging in people who are pushing us and pushing against the status quo. But having been an activist, the only thing that I'm always encouraging activists to do is, once you have raised the issue, and even through controversial means, you have to come behind it with an agenda and the possibility of reconciliation if power meets your demands.

There is a more excellent way, of love and nonviolent protest.

His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.

Nonviolence with Dr. [Martin Luther ]King is only a method. That's not his objective.

We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community.

My faith in non-co-operation is as bright as ever.

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

It is unfortunate that the efforts of mankind to recover the freedom of which they have been so long deprived, will be accompanied with violence, with errors, and even with crimes. But while we weep over the means, we must pray for the end.

One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible to turn the US around through nonviolent revolution. But one thing favors such an attempt: the total inability of violence to change anything for the better

Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.

True nonviolence is mightier than the mightiest violence.

When you hear me say "by any means necessary," I mean exactly that. I believe in anything that is necessary to correct unjust conditions-political, economic, social, physical, anything that is necessary.

Nonviolence is the means, the end for everyone is complete independence.

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

To me non-violence has come to represent a panacea for all the evils that surround my people, and, therefore, I am devoting all my energies towards the establishment of a society that should be based on its principles of truth and peace.

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

People resist exploitation. They resist as actively as they can, as passively as they must.

The gentleman cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.

They asked if I knew what 'conscientious objector' meant. I told them that when the white man asked me to go off somewhere and fight and maybe die to preserve the way the white man treated the black man in America, then my conscience made me object.

Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force.

Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.