Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Civil Disobedience
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Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.
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Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme.
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Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity.
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Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.
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Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.
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Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.
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Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.
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Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.
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Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within the states or in British India.
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The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to the laws laid down for him.
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Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.
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Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort.
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Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.
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Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.
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Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.
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Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.
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In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.
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Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention.
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Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.
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Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.
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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.
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Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.
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Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible.
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Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.
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Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.
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Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.
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If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.
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Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together.
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Mahatma Gandhi
- Born: October 2, 1869
- Died: January 30, 1948
- Occupation: Civil rights leader
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