Satyagraha Quotes
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Satyagraha does not depend on outside help, it derives all its strength from within.
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I have repeatedly stated that satyagraha never fails and that one perfect satyagrahi is enough to vindicate Truth.
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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.
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What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom.
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Satyagraha is an attribute of the spirit within.
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Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.
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Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.
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Satyagraha as conceived by me is a science in the making.
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Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj.
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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.
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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.
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Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.
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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.
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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.
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Not those who shout 'satyagraha', 'satyagraha' will do satyagraha, but those who will work for it.
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A satyagrahi has no other stay but God, and he who has any other stay or depends on any other help cannot offer satyagraha.
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Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle.
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Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth.
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A clear victory of satyagraha is impossible so long as there is ill will.
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Satyagraha is search for Truth, and God is Truth.