Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Liberty
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But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.
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The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint.
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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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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 them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help.
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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. . . . . . . Prayer is the first and the last lesson in learning the noble and brave art of sacrificing self in the various walks of life culminating in the defence of one's nation's liberty and honour.
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Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.
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No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them.
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I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.
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Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.
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A rose will smell as sweet by any other name, but it must be the rose of liberty that I want and not the artificial product.
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Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought.
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My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
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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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No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.
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Liberty never meant the license to do anything at will.
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Woman in the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities. She has the right to participate in the minutest details in the activities of man, and she has equal right to liberty of freedom and liberty with him.
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We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.
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I'm a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours.
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One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.
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To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
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Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.
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Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.
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Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.
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Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
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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.
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My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.
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In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
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The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.
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Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.
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Mahatma Gandhi
- Born: October 2, 1869
- Died: January 30, 1948
- Occupation: Civil rights leader
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