Quotes Mahatma Gandhi - page 17
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Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.
Satyagraha thrives on repression till at last the repressor is tired of it and the object of satyagraha is gained.
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.
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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.
In satyagraha, a courted imprisonment carries its own praise.
Real suffering bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone. Such is the potency of suffering. And there lies the key to Satyagraha.
Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle.
Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.
A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him.
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.
No police officer could compel a satyagrahi to give evidence against a person who has confessed to him. A satyagrahi would never be guilty of a betrayal of trust.
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.
A satyagrahi has always his minimum and it is this minimum that is wanted in connection with this struggle.
My purpose is to describe experiments in the science ofsatyagraha and not at all to describe how good I am.
It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war.
Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.
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Satyagraha does not depend on outside help, it derives all its strength from within.
