A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence. — 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
Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is the function of God Rama to destroy evil, wherever it occurs and it is equally the function of God Rama… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its… — 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
A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed… Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Men should do their actual living and working in communities small enough to permit of genuine self-government and the assumption of personal… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“But so long as I lived under a system of Government based on force and voluntarily partook of the many facilities and privileges it created for me, I was bound to help that Government to the extent of my ability when it was engaged in a war, unless I non-co-operated with the Government and renounced to the utmost of my… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
Events that have happened during the past month have confirmed me in the opinion that the Imperial Government have acted in the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Withholding of payment of taxes is one of the quickest methods of overthrowing a government. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The nation's non-co-operation is an invitation to the Government to co-operate with it on its own terms, as is every nation's right… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Do not concentrate on showing the misdeeds of the government, for we have to convert and befriend those who run it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren? — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I have not hesitated to call the system of Government under which we are labouring 'satanic' and I withdraw naught out of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability which is amazing and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Buddha emphasized and re-declared the eternal and unalterable existence of the moral government of this universe. He unhesitatingly said that the law… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No matter what the cause was and wherever it was, Indian governments must never requisition the services of British soldiers to deal… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest. — 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 speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting… — 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 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