Non-cooperation Quotes

It means that we must abandon the method of civil disobedience, non-cooperation and satyagraha. When there was no way left for constitutional methods for achieving economic and social objectives, there was a great deal of justification for unconstitutional methods. But where constitutional methods are open, there can be no justification for these unconstitutional methods. These methods are nothing but the Grammar of Anarchy and the sooner they are abandoned, the better for us.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

I'm sorry, I'm not a performing monkey.

Non-violence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-cooperation with evil.

The non-violent way does not bring about miracles.

In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evildoer. I am endeavoring to show my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiplies evil and that evil can only be sustained by violence. Withdrawal of support of evil requires complete abstention from violence. Non-violence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-cooperation with evil.

In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties.

Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.

My main aim in 'Gandhi' was to project him as the vanguard of non-violence. Nowhere in the world has a movement of non-cooperation sans violence received so much support from masses as Gandhi's movement in India did. He was, to a great extent, responsible for freeing his nation from the British Raj.

Non-co-operation is the quickest method of creating public opinion.

Our peaceful non-co-operation must be constructive, non-destructive. Poison should not emerge from the throes of love.

You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

I studied the philosophy and the discipline of non-violence in Nashville as a student. And I staged a sitting-in in the fall of 1959 and got arrested the first time in February 1960.

When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace.

[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could, and still things get worse in Tibet." If you look at it from one point of view, as he himself says, his monastic position of forbearance and nonviolence hasn't reaped any benefits. And yet, he's thinking in terms of the long term, of centuries.

There are quite a few disgruntled Greenpeacers who are opposed to its policy of non-cooperation.

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

I have always been of opinion that all the political workers should be indifferent and should never bother about the legal fight in the law courts and should boldly bear the heaviest possible sentences inflicted upon them. They may defend themselves but always from purely political considerations and never from a personal point of view.

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

The Bhagavadgita is a gospel of non-co-operation between the forces of darkness and those of light.

We must never violate principles. We must never initiate violence. And we should never harm the innocent. But at some point, unless governments back off, we have to stop being nice.

You're a very difficult person to manipulate, you know." "Nonsense," he said. "You just have to promise me that I won't have to do a thing, and then I'll do anything you want." "Anything?" "Anything that doesn't require doing anything." "That's nothing, then." "Is it?" "Yes." "Well, that's something.

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

If anyone asks me a fantasy football question or for help, I don't respond.

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