Mahatma Gandhi Freedom Quotations

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

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

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

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

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

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.

Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day.

Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn.

Freedom battles are not fought without paying heavy prices.

No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.

Freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth.

We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.

It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.

Though we are politically free, we are hardly free from the subtle domination of the West.

A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing.

A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.

There is no road to freedom, freedom is the road.

There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations.

I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.

To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.

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.

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

The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts - that is where the battle should be fought.

Peace is its own reward.

Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.

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

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

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

Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.

I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.

Democracy and violence can ill go together.

In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.

Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.

The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.

Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.

The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.

Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.

No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.

I well remember how the thoughts I had up to the time of my discharge from the jail on every occasion were modified immediately after discharge, and after getting first-hand information myself. Somehow or other the jail atmosphere does not allow you to have all the bearings in your mind.

Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth.