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Government Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
- Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.…
- Good government is no substitute for self-government.
- It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts…
- The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.
- We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict…
- Men should do their actual living and working in communities small enough to permit of genuine self-government and the assumption of personal responsibilities, federated into…
- If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
- Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power…
- Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives…
- Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the…
- I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality
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