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Law Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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The law of love is presented as a boundless guide. Gandhi’s sayings say that democracy grows from willing obedience, that unjust law is a form of violence, and that love can conquer any opponent. They also warn that obeying immoral laws sustains slavery and that true civilization must reject racial legislation.

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There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.

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An unjust law in itself is an act of violence.

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Cow-slaughter can never be stopped by law.

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The Law and the Lawgiver are one.

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Love is the law of life.

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War knows no law except that of might.

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It is the law of love that rules mankind.

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The Law which governs all life is God.

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A seeker after truth, a follower of the law of Love, cannot hold anything against tomorrow.

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Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute.

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If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.

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... the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties driven asunder.

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As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.

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If love wasn't the law of life, life would not have persisted in the midst of death.

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Legal imposition avoids the necessity of honour or good faith.

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If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.

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Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.

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Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will…

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God Himself has reserved no right of revision of His own laws nor is there any need for Him for any such…

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In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could…

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It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and…

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The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.

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When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.

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There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

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That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The…

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The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to…

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I believe that the sum total of the energy of mankind is not to bring us down but to lift us up,…

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If there was any teacher in the world who insisted upon the inexorable law of cause and effect, it was Gautam, and…

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We are less than atoms, I say, because the atom obeys the law of its being, whereas we in the insolence of…

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There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even…

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Destruction is not the law of humans. Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands…

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The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations…

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So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to…

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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength,…

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Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root,…

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While in Bombay, I began, on one hand, my study of Indian law and, on the other, my experiments in dietetics in…

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Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.

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Absolute calm is not the law of ocean. And it is the same with the ocean of life.

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God's laws are eternal and unalterable and not separable from God Himself.

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The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.

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I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death…

Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.

No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

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“Where there is life.”

If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the…

The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.