Government Gandhi Quotes

#1. With a stranglehold of authority it banned the statement for its reproduction or publication in part or in full. The motive on the part of the Government was obvious. It did not want Gandhi to be exposed to the public. The

Anup SarDesai

#2. Do not concentrate on showing the misdeeds of the government, for we have to convert and befriend those who run it.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. No matter what the cause was and wherever it was, Indian governments must never requisition the services of British soldiers to deal with civil disturbances.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. Withholding of payment of taxes is one of the quickest methods of overthrowing a government.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. Gandhi was important for another reason as well: his country was suffering under the British Empire, and yet he was leading a very singular kind of resistance to it. At the time he was speaking about the violence in Europe, his followers were in jail as prisoners of the British government.

Nicholson Baker

#10. What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren?

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality

Mahatma Gandhi

#13. The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which is the Kingdom of God.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics.

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. No scheme of self-government, however benevolently or generously it may be bestowed upon us, will ever make us a self-governing nation, if we have no respect for the languages our mothers speak.

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.

Mahatma Gandhi

#17. Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or to force them to do its will.

Mahatma Gandhi

#18. It is the function of God Rama to destroy evil, wherever it occurs and it is equally the function of God Rama to give to his devotees like Bibhishana a free charter of irrevocable self-government.

Mahatma Gandhi

#19. A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.

Mahatma Gandhi

#20. Non-co-operation enables us to show that in everything that matters we can be independent of the Government.

Mahatma Gandhi

#21. It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.

Mahatma Gandhi

#22. The Government of India had imprisoned Mr. Gandhi and they had been sitting outside his cell door begging him to help them out of their difficulties.

Winston Churchill

#23. Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.

Mahatma Gandhi

#24. The only true resistance to this Government ... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.

Mahatma Gandhi

#25. I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality which lies at the heart of all progress.

Mahatma Gandhi

#26. A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others.

Mahatma Gandhi

#27. Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great he may be.

Mahatma Gandhi

#28. Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.

Stafford Cripps

#29. I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability which is amazing and he seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed.

Mahatma Gandhi

#30. Good government is no substitute for self-government.

Mahatma Gandhi

#31. Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights.

Mahatma Gandhi

#32. Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

#33. Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed ... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.

Mahatma Gandhi

#34. I would still ask the government not to drive the people of India to desperation, or else there is no other course left open to the people except to inaugurate the policy of non-cooperation, though not necessarily the programme of Mr. Gandhi.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#35. We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend.

Mahatma Gandhi

#36. The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest.

Mahatma Gandhi

#37. 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

#38. Nobody can refuse a person who comes and asks for a job. Nobody can refuse a poor man when he goes and asks for food. Nobody can stop any Indian if he asks a question of his government. This is what the Congress party and the UPA have done over the last 10 years.

Rahul Gandhi

#39. I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.

Mahatma Gandhi

#40. I have not hesitated to call the system of Government under which we are labouring 'satanic' and I withdraw naught out of it.

Mahatma Gandhi

#41. For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

#42. Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.

Mahatma Gandhi

#43. A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.

Mahatma Gandhi

#44. People in a democracy should be satisfied with drawing the Government's attention to a mistake, if any.

Mahatma Gandhi

#45. Buddha emphasized and re-declared the eternal and unalterable existence of the moral government of this universe. He unhesitatingly said that the law was God Himself.

Mahatma Gandhi

#46. No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.

Mahatma Gandhi

#47. Men should do their actual living and working in communities small enough to permit of genuine self-government and the assumption of personal responsibilities, federated into larger units in such a way that the temptation to abuse great power should not arise.

Mahatma Gandhi

#48. Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help from the government.

Mahatma Gandhi

#49. The nation's non-co-operation is an invitation to the Government to co-operate with it on its own terms, as is every nation's right and every good government's duty.

Mahatma Gandhi

#50. The Maharashtra government is working out a package for the worst-affected villages of the state in the recent floods. But we know whenever such calamities occur; whatever we do is not enough ... more has to be done.

Sonia Gandhi

#51. Gandhi has more recently recognized the need for continuance of British, American and Chinese efforts in India and has suggested that these troops might remain by agreement with some new Indian Government.

Stafford Cripps