Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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

Non-co-operation in the political field is an extension of the doctrine as it is practised in the domestic field.

Non-co-operation enables us to show that in everything that matters we can be independent of the Government.

It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.

Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for violence in the near or distant future.

The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.

Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.

Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.

Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.

Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world.

We may not go about parroting truth and nonviolence and steering clear of them in our daily life.

Active nonviolence is necessary for those who will offer civil disobedience but the will and proper training are enough for the people to co-operate with those who are chosen for civil disobedience.

If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase.

If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.

An awakened people who rely upon their nonviolent strength are independent in the face of any conceivable combination of the armed powers.

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.

Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence.

Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.

The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.

Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.

We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.

Nonviolence does not require any outside or outward training.

Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home.

That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society.

Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.

Unless we learn the lesson of nonviolence fully, we shall never do away with the deadly feuds which have been the curse of the Frontier people.

My nonviolence is made of stern stuff. It is firmer than the firmest metal known to scientists.

My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.

My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane.

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

Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within.

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

The word 'defeat' is not to be found in my dictionary, and everyone who is selected as a recruit in my army may be certain that there is no defeat for a satyagrahi.

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

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

A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary and there is no intention to deceive anyone.

A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still.

A satyagrahi has infinite patience, abundant faith in others, and ample hope.

A satyagrahi cannot go to law for a personal wrong.

A satyagrahi loves his so-called enemy even as he loves his friend. He has no enemy.

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

The villagers want bread-not butter-and disciplined work, some work that will supplement their agricultural avocations which do not go on for all the 12 months.

Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.

I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions.

My dictionary has no such expression as a violent fight.

Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.

What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.

Our aim is not to do things by violence to opponents.

Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale.

My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.