Satyagraha Quotes - Page 4

• In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

  John Bunyan

  Love, Christian, Peace

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• It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  War, Violence, Substitutes

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.370, Oxford University Press

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• Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Use, Coercion, Conviction

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• 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

  Long, Never Lose Hope, Should

  Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Purpose, Experiments

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• A clear victory of satyagraha is impossible so long as there is ill will.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ill Will, Long, Victory

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Writing, Games

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “Hind Swaraj”, p.12, Rajpal & Sons

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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.

  Vandana Shiva

  Ideas, Rights, Diversity

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• A satyagrahi is nothing if not instinctively law-abiding.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Abiding, Ifs

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works: (1918:Aug.-1919:Jul.)”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Enemy, Body

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Prayer, Successful

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.31, New Directions Publishing

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• Satyagraha is a purely spiritual weapon.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Weapons

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.369, Oxford University Press

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Use, Common, Force

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.354, Rajpal & Sons

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• Satyagraha is search for Truth, and God is Truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Search For Truth

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• 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

  Public Opinion, Elements, Ends

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.142, Hackett Publishing

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• Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Community, India, Finals

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• 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

  Connections, Belief

  Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

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• 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

  Jail, India, Would Be

  Mahatma Gandhi (1982). “Collected Works”

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• A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Opponents, Failing, Should

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  "Humor, Play, & Laughter : Stress-proofing Life with Your Kids" by Joseph A. Michelli, (p. 88), 1998.

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• Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Peace, Heart

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• Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Good Morning, Prayer, Good Day

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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