Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A democratic organization has to dare to do the right at all costs. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
People in a democracy should be satisfied with drawing the Government's attention to a mistake, if any. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their oneness, and should insist upon choosing as… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to pure democracy.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Democracy can only represent the average if not less than the average. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The voice of the people may be said to be God's voice, the voice of the Panchayat. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas. — 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
The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic — 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 Image
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 Image
So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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 Image
Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
