Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Duty
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If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape us like a will-o'-the-wisp.
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The true source of rights is duty.
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Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.
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The still small voice within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty.
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Non-cooperation with tyrants is a duty.
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You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote.
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Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights.
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A friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.
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Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.
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Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.
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In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evildoer. I am endeavoring to show my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiplies evil and that evil can only be sustained by violence. Withdrawal of support of evil requires complete abstention from violence. Non-violence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-cooperation with evil.
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Now the man on duty used to be changed from time to time. Once one of these men, without giving me the slightest warning, without even asking me to leave the footpath, pushed and kicked me into the street. I was dismayed. Before I could question him as to his behaviour, Mr Coates, who happened to be passing the spot on horseback, hailed me and said: 'Gandhi, I have seen everything. I shall gladly be your witness in court if you proceed against the man. I am very sorry you have been so rudely assaulted.'
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Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.
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If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
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Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence.
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At times, non-co-operation becomes as much a duty as co-operation.
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Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.
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Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life.
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Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms. To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions. So doing, we know ourselves.
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Our duty is very simple and plain. We want to serve the community, and in our own humble way to serve the Empire. We believe in the righteousness of the cause, which it is our privilege to espouse. We have an abiding faith in the mercy of the Almighty God, and we have firm faith in the British Constitution. That being so, we should fail in our duty if we wrote anything with a view to hurt.
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Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.
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A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent.
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A duty religiously performed carries with it several other important consequences.
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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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Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.
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The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status.
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Non-cooperatio n with evil is a sacred duty.
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Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter
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Mahatma Gandhi
- Born: October 2, 1869
- Died: January 30, 1948
- Occupation: Civil rights leader
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