No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties. — 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
Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus… — 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
Rights of true citizenship accrue only to those who serve the State to which they belong. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights. — 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
If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos. — 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 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
