Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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

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

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

The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.

It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war.

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

It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.

What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom.

We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.

Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible.

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

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

Violence is the weapon of the weak.

The method of satyagraha requires that the satyagrahi should never lose hope, so long as there is the slightest ground left for it.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed.

Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.

To die without killing is the badge of a satyagrahi.

I have repeatedly stated that satyagraha never fails and that one perfect satyagrahi is enough to vindicate Truth.

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

Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth.

Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.

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

In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For, what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but one's own self.

Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.