Satyagrahi Quotes & Sayings

The satyagrahi enters the jail cell as the bridegroom enters the bridal chamber — M K Gandhi

A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary and there is no intention to deceive anyone. — Mahatma Gandhi

A satyagrahi should have a living faith in God. — Mahatma Gandhi

You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death. — 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

For a satyagrahi brigade only those are eligible who believe in ahimsa and satya. — Mahatma Gandhi

My satyagrahi spirit tells me that I may not retaliate. — Mahatma Gandhi

In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force. — Mahatma Gandhi

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. — Mahatma Gandhi

A satyagrahi must ceaselessly strive to realize and live truth. And he must never contemplate hurting anyone by thought, word or deed. — Mahatma Gandhi

A satyagrahi cannot go to law for a personal wrong. — Mahatma Gandhi

A satyagrahi would neither retaliate nor would he submit to the criminal, but seek to cure him by curing himself. — Mahatma Gandhi

The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion. — Mahatma Gandhi

A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan. — Mahatma Gandhi

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. — Mahatma Gandhi

A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha. — 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

To die without killing is the badge of a satyagrahi. — Mahatma Gandhi

A satyagrahi has infinite patience, abundant faith in others, and ample hope. — Mahatma Gandhi

The satyagrahi should not have any hatred in his heart against the opponent. — Mahatma Gandhi

I have repeatedly stated that satyagraha never fails and that one perfect satyagrahi is enough to vindicate Truth. — Mahatma Gandhi

No confirmed satyagrahi is dismayed by dangers, seen or unseen, from his opponent's side. — Mahatma Gandhi

Satyagraha means insistence on what one knows to be the truth. The insistence implies the exercise of free will as the need of social obligation. If one is content to know the truth himself, he does not become a votary of Satyagraha. A Satyagrahi should not only know the truth but should insist upon it in social relations. So Satyagraha is activation of truthfulness. — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

A satyagrahi loves his so-called enemy even as he loves his friend. He has no enemy. — Mahatma Gandhi

There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering. — Mahatma Gandhi

A satyagrahi is nothing if not instinctively law-abiding. — Mahatma Gandhi

A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him. — Mahatma Gandhi

A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still. — 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

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. — Mahatma Gandhi

Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced. — Mahatma Gandhi

A satyagrahi, whilst he is ever ready to fight, must be equally eager for peace. — Mahatma Gandhi

A satyagrahi has always his minimum and it is this minimum that is wanted in connection with this struggle. — Mahatma Gandhi