Top 72 Quotes About Satyagraha
#1. 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.
Narendra Modi
#2. Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open.
Mahatma Gandhi
#3. Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.
Mahatma Gandhi
#5. Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle.
Mahatma Gandhi
#6. A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.
Mahatma Gandhi
#7. Even as satyagraha is a weapon unique of its kind and not one of the ordinary weapons used by people, so is Khadi, a unique article of commerce which will not, cannot, succeed on terms common to other articles.
Mahatma Gandhi
#8. 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
#9. There must be power in the word of a satyagraha general, not the power that the possession of limitless arms gives, but the power that purifies life which strict vigilance and a ceaseless application produce.
Mahatma Gandhi
#10. In the dictionary of satyagraha, there is no enemy.
Mahatma Gandhi
#11. Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#12. Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj.
Mahatma Gandhi
#13. In satyagraha, a courted imprisonment carries its own praise.
Mahatma Gandhi
#14. Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation.
Mahatma Gandhi
#15. Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.
(Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13, 3 May 1919)
Mahatma Gandhi
#16. Satyagraha does not depend on outside help, it derives all its strength from within.
Mahatma Gandhi
#17. A clear victory of satyagraha is impossible so long as there is ill will.
Mahatma Gandhi
#18. I have repeatedly stated that satyagraha never fails and that one perfect satyagrahi is enough to vindicate Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#19. The two came to differ on many, if not most, issues. But the man who would single-handedly defy Hitler in 1940 against all odds bears a striking resemblance to the man who organized the first satyagraha campaign in South Africa.
Arthur Herman
#20. 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
#21. Satyagraha as conceived by me is a science in the making.
Mahatma Gandhi
#22. Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.
Mahatma Gandhi
#23. A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha.
Mahatma Gandhi
#24. 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
#25. It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war.
Mahatma Gandhi
#26. Not those who shout 'satyagraha', 'satyagraha' will do satyagraha, but those who will work for it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#27. Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul.
Mahatma Gandhi
#28. Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.
Mahatma Gandhi
#29. 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.
Mahatma Gandhi
#30. To be equitable, economic growth has to be sustainable. To be sustainable, economic growth has in turn to be all-inclusive. All-inclusive is no longer the greatest good of the greatest number. It is actually Sarvodaya or the rise of all. This Mahatma Gandhi saw as essential to Satyagraha itself.
Sonia Gandhi
#32. For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on life, and developing intellectual ideas of resistance - is very much a continuation of Gandhian satyagraha. It is, for me, keeping life free in its diversity.
Vandana Shiva
#33. As a young man in South Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century, Gandhi developed satyagraha, a mode of political activism based upon moral persuasion, while mobilizing South Africa's small Indian minority against racial discrimination.
Pankaj Mishra
#34. Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.
Mahatma Gandhi
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.
Mahatma Gandhi
#39. 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
#40. Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.
Mahatma Gandhi
#41. For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering.
Mahatma Gandhi
#42. Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral.
Mahatma Gandhi
#43. I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha.
Mahatma Gandhi
#44. 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
#45. 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.
Mahatma Gandhi
#46. Satyagraha thrives on repression till at last the repressor is tired of it and the object of satyagraha is gained.
Mahatma Gandhi
#47. Satyagraha is a force that has come to stay. No force in the world can kill it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#48. Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#49. What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom.
Mahatma Gandhi
#50. The word satyagraha implies, Gandhi's passivity was not weakness at all. It meant focusing on an ultimate goal and refusing to divert energy to unnecessary skirmishes along the way.
Susan Cain
#51. Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.
Mahatma Gandhi
#52. A satyagrahi loves his so-called enemy even as he loves his friend. He has no enemy.
Mahatma Gandhi
#53. My purpose is to describe experiments in the science ofsatyagraha and not at all to describe how good I am.
Mahatma Gandhi
#54. A satyagrahi would neither retaliate nor would he submit to the criminal, but seek to cure him by curing himself.
Mahatma Gandhi
#55. A satyagrahi has always his minimum and it is this minimum that is wanted in connection with this struggle.
Mahatma Gandhi
#58. A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him.
Mahatma Gandhi
#59. I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.
Mahatma Gandhi
#61. A satyagrahi cannot go to law for a personal wrong.
Mahatma Gandhi
#62. 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.
Mahatma Gandhi
#63. A satyagrahi, whilst he is ever ready to fight, must be equally eager for peace.
Mahatma Gandhi
#64. There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering.
Mahatma Gandhi
#65. A satyagrahi has infinite patience, abundant faith in others, and ample hope.
Mahatma Gandhi
#66. They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.
Mahatma Gandhi
#67. A satyagrahi is nothing if not instinctively law-abiding.
Mahatma Gandhi
#68. In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force.
Mahatma Gandhi
#69. My satyagrahi spirit tells me that I may not retaliate.
Mahatma Gandhi
#70. To die without killing is the badge of a satyagrahi.
Mahatma Gandhi
#71. A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.
Mahatma Gandhi
#72. For a satyagrahi brigade only those are eligible who believe in ahimsa and satya.
Mahatma Gandhi
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