Satyagraha Quotes
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Satyagraha does not depend on outside help, it derives all its strength from within.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Not those who shout 'satyagraha', 'satyagraha' will do satyagraha, but those who will work for it.
— Mahatma Gandhi
There is a vital connection between satyagraha and charkha, and the more I find that belief challenged, the more I am confirmed in it.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A satyagrahi has always his minimum and it is this minimum that is wanted in connection with this struggle.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I have repeatedly stated that satyagraha never fails and that one perfect satyagrahi is enough to vindicate Truth.
— Mahatma Gandhi
What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Satyagraha is a purely spiritual weapon.
— Mahatma Gandhi
They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.
— Mahatma Gandhi
There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.
— Mahatma Gandhi
All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness.
— Mahatma Gandhi
In satyagraha, a courted imprisonment carries its own praise.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A satyagrahi loves his so-called enemy even as he loves his friend. He has no enemy.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj.
— Mahatma Gandhi
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A satyagrahi has no other stay but God, and he who has any other stay or depends on any other help cannot offer satyagraha.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Satyagraha thrives on repression till at last the repressor is tired of it and the object of satyagraha is gained.
— Mahatma Gandhi
In the dictionary of satyagraha, there is no enemy.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Satyagraha is an attribute of the spirit within.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Satyagraha as conceived by me is a science in the making.
— Mahatma Gandhi
My purpose is to describe experiments in the science ofsatyagraha and not at all to describe how good I am.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A satyagrahi is nothing if not instinctively law-abiding.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Real suffering bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone. Such is the potency of suffering. And there lies the key to Satyagraha.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The method of satyagraha requires that the satyagrahi should never lose hope, so long as there is the slightest ground left for it.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.(Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13, 3 May 1919) — Mahatma Gandhi
Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.
— Mahatma Gandhi
To die without killing is the badge of a satyagrahi.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A satyagrahi would neither retaliate nor would he submit to the criminal, but seek to cure him by curing himself.
— Mahatma Gandhi
My satyagrahi spirit tells me that I may not retaliate.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.
— Mahatma Gandhi
For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A satyagrahi cannot go to law for a personal wrong.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Satyagraha is search for Truth, and God is Truth.
— Mahatma Gandhi
