Mahatma Gandhi Atmosphere Quotations

Religious truth, or for that matter any truth, requires a calm and meditative atmosphere for its percolation.

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

In an atmosphere of ahimsa, one has no scope to put his ahimsa to the test. It can be tested only in the face of himsa.

Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.