I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
Peace is its own reward.
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.
Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.
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.
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.
There is no road to freedom, freedom is the road.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts - that is where the battle should be fought.
Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.
Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something,it makes me incapable of doing it. When I believe I can,I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.’"Mahatma Gandhi
I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.
Freedom and slavery are mental states.
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.
Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.
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