Rights Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek.

— Mahatma Gandhi

What is equality of rights between a giant and a dwarf?

— Mahatma Gandhi

The true source of rights is duty.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Rights of true citizenship accrue only to those who serve the State to which they belong.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter

— Mahatma Gandhi

If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights.

— Mahatma Gandhi

What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom.

— Mahatma Gandhi