Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Liberty

• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Teaching, Government, Self

  "Delhi Diary". Book by Mahatma Gandhi, pp. 68-70, March 1948.

• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Gun, British Rule In India

  Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.681, GENERAL PRESS

• In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Freedom, Law

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gandhigrams”

• Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Libertarian Party, Democracy

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.144, Vintage

• Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, War, Heart

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.68, A&C Black

• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Freedom, Opportunity

• I'm a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Liberty, Lovers, Patronage

  Young India, January 21, 1927.

• Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, War, Blood

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.70, New Directions Publishing

• One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Liberty, Use, Coercion

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Mean, Democracy

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.141, A&C Black

• 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 or democracy?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Peace, War

  Non-Violence in Peace and War (1942) vol. 1, ch. 142

• The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Freedom, Acceptance

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

• No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Liberty, Denial

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.27, Rajpal & Sons

• But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Views, Liberty

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.68, A&C Black

• I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving, Religion, Liberty

  Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India”

• Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Mistake, Struggle

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strong, War, Differences

  Non-Violence in Peace and War (1942) vol. 1, ch. 142

• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Equality, Men, Liberty

  Mahatma Gandhi (1988). “Gandhi on Women: Collection of Mahatma Gandhi's Writings and Speeches on Women”

• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Teaching, Liberty, Gita

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.40, Courier Corporation

• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sweet, Names, Smell

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.274, Grove Press

• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ideas, Liberty, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.165, Rajpal & Sons

• No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Liberty, Earth, Opponents

  Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

• I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sacrifice, Liberty, India

• Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his individual liberty has to be curtailed at every step.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Liberty, Steps

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

• Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Liberty, Essentials

  Mahatma Gandhi (1963). “Co-operation”

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