#Non Cooperation Quotes

“That parrot's non-co-operation with the cage, with its master, will live for ever because it looks upon renunciation, non-co-operation, as a joy.”

“My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.”

“It is as much our obligation not to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good”

“Non-co-operation is the quickest method of creating public opinion.”

“Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak.”

“Non-cooperation is directed not against men but against measures. It is not directed against the Governors, but against the system they administer. The roots of non-cooperation lies not in hatred but in justice if not in love.”

“I was a co-operator too in the sense that I non-co-operated for co-operation, and even then I said that if I could carry the country forward by co-operation I should co-operate.”

“Reasoned and willing obedience to the laws of the State is the first lesson in non-co-operation.”

“It is the duty of a non-co-operator to preach disaffection towards the existing order of things. Non-co-operators are but giving disciplined expression to a nation's outraged feelings.”

“At times, non-co-operation becomes as much a duty as co-operation.”

“The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West.”

“Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.”

“The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.”

“The nation's non-co-operation is an invitation to the Government to co-operate with it on its own terms, as is every nation's right and every good government's duty.”

“If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.”

“Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.”

“Exploitation of the poor can be extinguished not by effecting the destruction of a few millionaires, but by removing the ignorance of the poor and teaching them to non-cooperate with their exploiters.”

“Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.”

“Non-co-operation intended to pave the way to real honourable and voluntary co-operation based on mutual respect and trust.”

“Non-co-operation is an attempt to awaken the masses to a sense of their dignity and power.”

“Non-co-operators will make a serious mistake if they seek to convert people to their creed by violence.”

“This campaign of non-cooperation has no reference to diplomacy, secret or open. The only diplomacy it admits of is the statement and pursuance of truth at any cost.”

“I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial.”

“Non-cooperation with tyrants is a duty.”

“Non-co-operation is a movement intended to invite Englishmen to co-operate with us on honourable terms or retire from our land.”

“It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.”

“How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.”

“Non-co-operation is the nation's notice that it is no longer satisfied to be in tutelage.”

“Non-co-operation is not a movement of drag, bluster or bluff.”

“I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side with violence.”

“Nonviolent non-co-operation is the only alternative to anarchy and worse.”

“Non-co-operation in an angry atmosphere is an impossibility.”

“Non-co-operation enables us to show that in everything that matters we can be independent of the Government.”

“My non-co-operation is a token of my earnest longing for real heart co-operation in the place of co-operation falsely so called.”

“Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.”

“Non-co-operation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice.”

“I retain the opinion that council entry is inconsistent with non-co-operation as I conceive it.”

“When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace.”

“Non-co-operation is a nation's determination to improve.”

“Non-co-operation in the political field is an extension of the doctrine as it is practised in the domestic field.”

“Total nonviolent non-cooperation has no place in popular Raj, whatever its level may be.”

“The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.”