Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life.

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort.

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

Through Khadi we teach the people the art of civil obedience to an institution which they have built up for themselves.

Execution of the constructive programme in its entirety means more than Swaraj. It means Ram Raj, Khudai Sultanat or the Divine Kingdom.

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

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

The Swaraj of my dream is the poor man's Swaraj.

To my mind, Swaraj based on nonviolence is the fulfillment of the constructive programme.

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

If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.

For winning Swaraj one requires iron discipline.

The oppressed will make surer and faster progress if they eschew violence and depend, as they do mainly depend in their organizing and strike activities, on their solidarity, courage, capacity for suffering and sacrifice, and on non-cooperation where injustice becomes extreme

Passive resistance is the resistance which does not resist.

Swaraj can only be achieved through an all-round consciousness of the masses.

Non-co-operation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice.

Non-cooperation is directed not against men but against measures. It is not directed against the Governors, but against the system they administer. The roots of non-cooperation lies not in hatred but in justice if not in love.

Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.

Non-cooperation is beyond the reach of the bayonet. It has found an abiding place in the Indian heart. Workers like me will go when the hour has struck, but non-cooperation will remain.

Swaraj means even under dominion status a capacity to declare independence at will.

If Gandhism means simply mechanically turning the spinning wheel, it deserves to be destroyed.

The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.

Satyagraha is an opera which I wrote for the Netherlands Opera, so it uses an orchestra of around fifty, a chorus of forty, and there are about seven soloists. The opera ... Satyagraha means truthful, so it was a name [Mahatma] Gandhi used to describe his civil disobedience movement.

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

Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj.