I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two... The duty of a human being is to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment). — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No displeasure, even of the dearest friends, can put me off the duty I see clearly in front of me. — 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
What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties. — 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
