Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for it breach is more so. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Man the law-giver will have to pay a dreadful penalty for the degradation he has imposed upon the so called weaker sex. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Study men following the law of their higher nature, the law of love, so that when you grow to manhood, you will… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do not believe that the spiritual law works on a field of its own. On the contrary, it expresses itself only… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us we would have become extinct long ago.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Destruction is not the law of humans. Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity...If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Swadeshi is the only doctrine consistent with the law of humanity and love. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Law of Love, call it attraction, affinity, cohesion if you like, governs the world. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The fullest life is impossible without an immovable belief in a Living Law in obedience to which the whole universe moves. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
One who hooks his fortune to ahimsa, the law of love, daily lessens the circle of destruction and to that extent promotes… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention." — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
