Liberty Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I'm a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.

— Mahatma Gandhi

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his…

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in…

— Mahatma Gandhi

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for…

— Mahatma Gandhi

My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak…

— Mahatma Gandhi

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. . .…

— Mahatma Gandhi

What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Liberty never meant the license to do anything at will.

— Mahatma Gandhi

One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Woman in the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities. She has the right to participate in the minutest details in…

— Mahatma Gandhi

No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A rose will smell as sweet by any other name, but it must be the rose of liberty that I want and…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so…

— Mahatma Gandhi