Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Obedience
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Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.
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They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.
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A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.
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The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.
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Through Khadi we teach the people the art of civil obedience to an institution which they have built up for themselves.
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The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to the laws laid down for him.
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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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Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship.
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The fullest life is impossible without an immovable belief in a Living Law in obedience to which the whole universe moves.
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Reasoned and willing obedience to the laws of the State is the first lesson in non-co-operation.
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Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive.
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There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the state, to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being.
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Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.
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How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.
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A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.
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The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.
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Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.
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The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.
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Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.
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In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file.
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Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher laws - to the strength of the spirit.
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Mahatma Gandhi
- Born: October 2, 1869
- Died: January 30, 1948
- Occupation: Civil rights leader
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