Prison Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

11 Prison quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

When the great leader faced incarceration, his words turned the walls into a classroom of the soul. These eleven brief passages reveal how Gandhi turned a punitive space into a crucible for moral strength and non‑violent resistance.

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When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace.

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By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

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When the fear of jail disappears, repression puts heart into the people.

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

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Mine is not a religion of the prison-house. It has room for the least among God's creation.

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Men in prison are "civilly dead" and have no claim to any say in policy.

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India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.

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A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.

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I well remember how the thoughts I had up to the time of my discharge from the jail on every occasion were…

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I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun…

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I care so deeply about this matter that I'm willing to take on the legal penalties, to sit in this prison cell,…

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Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.

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No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

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So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

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I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

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Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

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I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

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“Where there is life.”

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If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the…

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The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

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Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

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My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

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I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

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Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.

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