Satyagraha Quotes
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A satyagrahi is nothing if not instinctively law-abiding.
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The satyagrahi should not have any hatred in his heart against the opponent.
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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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The word 'defeat' is not to be found in my dictionary, and everyone who is selected as a recruit in my army may be certain that there is no defeat for a satyagrahi.
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I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha.
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A satyagrahi, whilst he is ever ready to fight, must be equally eager for peace.
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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.
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My purpose is to describe experiments in the science ofsatyagraha and not at all to describe how good I am.
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A satyagrahi has no other stay but God, and he who has any other stay or depends on any other help cannot offer satyagraha.
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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.
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Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.
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For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering.
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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.
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Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle.
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A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail to catch every breeze as you do in the name of communism.
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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.
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Satyagraha as conceived by me is a science in the making.
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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.
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Satyagraha thrives on repression till at last the repressor is tired of it and the object of satyagraha is gained.
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A satyagrahi must ceaselessly strive to realize and live truth. And he must never contemplate hurting anyone by thought, word or deed.
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Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj.
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Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral.
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In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force.
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I have even seen the writings suggesting that I am playing a deep game, that I am using the present turmoil to foist my fads on India, and am making religious experiments at India's expense. I can only answer that Satyagraha is made of sterner stuff. There is nothing reserved and nothing secret in it.
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Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth.
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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Not those who shout 'satyagraha', 'satyagraha' will do satyagraha, but those who will work for it.
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Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
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Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
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