Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Anarchy

• An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Law

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.88, New Directions Publishing

• The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to pure democracy. Power based on love is thousand times more effective and permanent than power derived from fear of punishment. It is a blasphemy to say non-violence can be practiced only by individuals and never by nations which are composed of individuals. The nearest approach to purest anarchy would be a democracy based on non-violence. A society organized and run on the basis of complete non-violence would be the purest anarchy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, War, Simple

• The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Anarchy, Violence, Violent

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.69, New Directions Publishing

• In this day of wonders no one will say that a thing or an idea is worthless because it is new. To say it is impossible because it is difficult is again not in consonance with the spirit of the age. Things undreamt of are daily being seen, the impossible is ever becoming possible.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ideas, Age, Anarchy

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.84, A&C Black

• If all were nonviolent, there would be no anarchy and there would be no question of anybody being armed for meeting aggression from without.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Would Be, Anarchy, Aggression

• Nonviolent non-co-operation is the only alternative to anarchy and worse.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Alternatives, Anarchy, Operations

• Without real nonviolence, there would be perfect anarchy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Perfect, Anarchy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “Volume of prefaces”

• Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Circles, Pyramids, Anarchy

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.158, Oxford University Press

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