Non-Cooperation Movement Quotes

If the people resolve and carry out this programme of boycott and Swadeshi, they would not have to wait for Swaraj even for a year.

Sooner or later you will have to crush Gandhi and the Indian Congress and all they stand for.

I have had the hardihood to say that Swaraj could not be granted even by God.

In India there is a common saying that the way to Swaraj is through Mandalay.

I don't want to throw mud at anyone - I really admire Gandhi as a brilliant strategist - but Gandhi was pretty manipulative, you know.

No police officer could compel a satyagrahi to give evidence against a person who has confessed to him. A satyagrahi would never be guilty of a betrayal of trust.

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

A satyagrahi would neither retaliate nor would he submit to the criminal, but seek to cure him by curing himself.

My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.

In India, it's hard not to have Gandhi as a hero. To give up everything - including power and money - and to live for his countrymen, that beats everything else. He's a role model of selflessness.

I feel Mahatma Gandhi's non-violence was for the intelligent, educated British.It was not for those who don't understand this language.

Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.

Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.

Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.

Swaraj does not depend on jail going. If it did, there are thousands of prisoners in jail today. It depends on everyone doing his or her own task.

Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.

Nonviolent action without the co-operation of the heart and the head cannot produce the intended result.

We must treat arrest as the normal condition of the life of a non-co-operator.