Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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

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

My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.

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

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

A satyagrahi has always his minimum and it is this minimum that is wanted in connection with this struggle.

Not those who shout 'satyagraha', 'satyagraha' will do satyagraha, but those who will work for it.

If Gandhism means simply mechanically turning the spinning wheel, it deserves to be destroyed.

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

I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection. - Hind Swaraj

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.

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

In satyagraha, a courted imprisonment carries its own praise.

Passive resistance is the resistance which does not resist.

Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method.

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

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

I and others may be revolutionaries but we are disciples of Mahatma Gandhi, directly or indirectly, nothing more nothing less.

Seek ye first the Charkha and its concomitants and everything else will be added unto you.

I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha.

Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.

In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force.

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

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