The State is the sum total of the sacrifice, on its behalf, of its members. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The states can make the finest contribution to the building of India's future independence if they set the right example in their… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt. — 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
The message of the Gita is to be found in the second chapter of the Gita where Lord Krishna speaks of the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
... when all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A democrat should not rely upon the force of the arms his state could flaunt in the face of the world, but… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I believe that a party wishing equality for India does exist in Britain. But it is an insignificant minority, and while I… — 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
If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life in the presence of God. The sum-total of this life is God. .. Man is not at peace with himself until he has become like unto God. The endeavor to reach this state is the supreme, the only… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
Perfection is the exclusive attribute of God, and it is indescribable, untranslatable. I do believe that it is possible for human beings… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or… — 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
Birth and death are not different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. - — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law. — 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
There is no doubt that our last state will be worse than our first, if we surrender our reason into somebody's keeping. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There can be no rule of God in the present state of iniquitous inequalities in which a few roll in riches and… — 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
We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Swaraj means, a state such that we can maintain our separate existence without the presence of the English. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone… — 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
