Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Justice
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God is always the upholder of justice.
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A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
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A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
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Even the dog is described by the poet to have received justice under Ramarajya.
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No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.
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We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.
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It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the name of religion.
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Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good.
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There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
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Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking, or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; to me, the female sex is not the weaker sex.
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The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.
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You can only have lasting peace based on justice.
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The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.
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Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: - I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.
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Non-cooperation is directed not against men but against measures. It is not directed against the Governors, but against the system they administer. The roots of non-cooperation lies not in hatred but in justice if not in love.
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Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.
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Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.
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Justice does not help those who slumber but helps only those who are vigilant.
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It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.
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There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.
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God, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one - fifth of our vast population as untouchables.
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Mahatma Gandhi
- Born: October 2, 1869
- Died: January 30, 1948
- Occupation: Civil rights leader
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