Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together.
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.
Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.
Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.
Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.
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.
Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.
Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.
Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible.
Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme.
If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.
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.
Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, ‘To what purpose?’
Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.
This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.
Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?
Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.
Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.