Satyagraha Quotes

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.

Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.

Satyagraha is an attribute of the spirit within.

My satyagrahi spirit tells me that I may not retaliate.

In the dictionary of satyagraha, there is no enemy.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.

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

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

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

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

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

Satyagraha is a purely spiritual weapon.

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force.

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

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

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

A satyagrahi cannot go to law for a personal wrong.

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

A satyagrahi is nothing if not instinctively law-abiding.

Satyagraha is search for Truth, and God is Truth.

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

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

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

To die without killing is the badge of a satyagrahi.

In satyagraha, a courted imprisonment carries its own praise.