All MAHATMA GANDHI Quotes about “Civil Disobedience”

“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.”
“Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.”
“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.”
“Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.”
“Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.”
“Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.”
“Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.”
“Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.”
“Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.”
“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.”
“In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.”
“Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention.”
“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.”
“Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity.”
“Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.”
“Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.”
“Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.”
“The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.”
“Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.”
“Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.”
“If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.”
“Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.”
“Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.”
“Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme.”
“Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme.”
“Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open.”
“Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open.”
“Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.”
“Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.”
“Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible.”
“Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort.”
“Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together.”
“Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.”
“Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.”

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