Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Democracy
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To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.
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Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.
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The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.
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A democratic organization has to dare to do the right at all costs.
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Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.
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I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.
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Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.
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People in a democracy should be satisfied with drawing the Government's attention to a mistake, if any.
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Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.
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To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.
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The voice of the people may be said to be God's voice, the voice of the Panchayat.
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Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world.
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No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it.
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Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.
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The science of nonviolence can alone lead one to pure democracy.
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Democracy and violence can ill go together.
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What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy. What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals? The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty.
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There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations.
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Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic
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True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim to represent.
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If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
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Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.
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Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.
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Islam was nothing if it did not spell complete democracy.
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The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts - that is where the battle should be fought.
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If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase.
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Democracy demands patient instruction on it before legislation.
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My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest.
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The line of demarcation between democracy and monocracy is often thin, but rigid and stronger than unbreakable steel.
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Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.
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Mahatma Gandhi
- Born: October 2, 1869
- Died: January 30, 1948
- Occupation: Civil rights leader
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