If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness… are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed… — 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
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The line of demarcation between democracy and monocracy is often thin, but rigid and stronger than unbreakable steel. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts - that is where the battle should be… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The spirit of democracy... requires change of the heart... requires the inculcation of the spirit of brotherhood. — 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
