Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Through Khadi we teach the people the art of civil obedience to an institution which they have built up for themselves. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Reasoned and willing obedience to the laws of the State is the first lesson in non-co-operation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The fullest life is impossible without an immovable belief in a Living Law in obedience to which the whole universe moves. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship. — 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