Ogden Nash Quotes

Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles can be won without resort to physical strength? Who better than we should know all the power that resides in noncooperation?

History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.

Passive resistance is the resistance which does not resist.

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.

Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.

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

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

[A.J. Muste] never engaged in violence but he believed, as [Mahatma] Gandhi did - and he knew Gandhi slightly - he believed that a pacifist had to be active in the community.

Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.

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

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

The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success.

However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.

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

The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.

It's soul force that removed the English from India. It's soul force that brought down the Berlin Wall. It's soul force that gave life to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle for civil rights.

An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.

If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.

I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.

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

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

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.

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.