Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Citizenship

• Good government is no substitute for self-government.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Government, Self, Citizenship

  Mahatma Gandhi (2014). “Freedom's Battle: Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation”, p.74, The Floating Press

• Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

• "Be the change you want to see in the world"...and, if you can't be that change, then either get out of the way of the person who wants to be that change or support the individual with your financial resources.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Support, Community, World

• I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus the very right to live accrues to us only when we do the duty of citizenship of the world. From this one fundamental statement, perhaps it is easy enough to define the duties of Man and Woman and correlate every right to some corresponding duty to be first performed. Every other right can be shown to be a usurpation hardly worth fighting for.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wise, Mother, Fighting

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Supplementary volume”

• Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Education, Understanding, Honest

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.393, Rajpal & Sons

• Love requires that true education should be easily accessible to all and should be of use to every villager in this daily life. The emphasis laid on the principle of spending every minute of one's life usefully is the best education for citizenship.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Educational, Principles, Use

• Rights of true citizenship accrue only to those who serve the State to which they belong.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Rights, Citizenship, States

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.106, Hackett Publishing

• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Passion, Men, Civilization

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “Hind Swaraj”, p.49, Rajpal & Sons

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