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Satyagraha is a purely spiritual weapon. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Satyagraha as conceived by me is a science in the making. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Satyagraha does not depend on outside help, it derives all its strength from within. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Satyagraha thrives on repression till at last the repressor is tired of it and the object of satyagraha is gained. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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
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
In the dictionary of satyagraha, there is no enemy. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In satyagraha, a courted imprisonment carries its own praise. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The satyagrahi should not have any hatred in his heart against the opponent. -- Mahatma Gandhi
For a satyagrahi brigade only those are eligible who believe in ahimsa and satya. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A satyagrahi has always his minimum and it is this minimum that is wanted in connection with this struggle. -- Mahatma Gandhi
My purpose is to describe experiments in the science ofsatyagraha and not at all to describe how good I am. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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
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
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. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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
Satyagraha is an attribute of the spirit within. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Satyagraha is search for Truth, and God is Truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Satyagraha is a force that has come to stay. No force in the world can kill it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary."(Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13, 3 May 1919) -- Mahatma Gandhi
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
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
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. -- Philip Glass
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
A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A clear victory of satyagraha is impossible so long as there is ill will. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Not those who shout 'satyagraha', 'satyagraha' will do satyagraha, but those who will work for it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I have repeatedly stated that satyagraha never fails and that one perfect satyagrahi is enough to vindicate Truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect. -- Mahatma Gandhi
For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being. -- Mahatma Gandhi
What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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
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
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
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
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

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