Satyagraha Quotes

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

Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.

Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.

Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral.

Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.

Satyagraha is an attribute of the spirit within.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.

For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering.

My satyagrahi spirit tells me that I may not retaliate.

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

In the dictionary of satyagraha, there is no enemy.

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.

There is a vital connection between satyagraha and charkha, and the more I find that belief challenged, the more I am confirmed in it.

The satyagrahi general has to obey his inner voice, for over and above the situation outside he examines himself constantly and listens to the dictates of the inner self.

Satyagraha as conceived by me is a science in the making.

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

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

There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.

Real suffering bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone. Such is the potency of suffering. And there lies the key to Satyagraha.

My purpose is to describe experiments in the science ofsatyagraha and not at all to describe how good I am.

Satyagraha does not depend on outside help, it derives all its strength from within.

Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.

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.

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

For a satyagrahi brigade only those are eligible who believe in ahimsa and satya.

Satyagraha is search for Truth, and God is Truth.

A satyagrahi cannot go to law for a personal wrong.

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.

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.

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

Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open.

Satyagraha is a purely spiritual weapon.

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

In satyagraha, a courted imprisonment carries its own praise.

The mantra of independence was Satyagraha. And the warriors were Satyagrahis. The mantra of New Age India must be Swachhagrah. And the warriors will be Swachhagrahis.

A satyagrahi has always his minimum and it is this minimum that is wanted in connection with this struggle.

A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.

A satyagrahi has no other stay but God, and he who has any other stay or depends on any other help cannot offer satyagraha.

A satyagrahi, whilst he is ever ready to fight, must be equally eager for peace.

A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha.

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

Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.

Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our lives for the defence of India's just cause.

Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul.

Satyagraha is a force that has come to stay. No force in the world can kill it.

Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.

A clear victory of satyagraha is impossible so long as there is ill will.

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

A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him.