Quotes On Democracy By Mahatma Gandhi

#1. Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. A democratic organization has to dare to do the right at all costs.

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#3. Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.

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#4. Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a defence of true democracy?

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#5. A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of democracy.

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#6. What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

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#7. Democracy can only represent the average if not less than the average.

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#8. Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.

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#9. Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.

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

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#11. The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.

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

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#13. Islam was nothing if it did not spell complete democracy.

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

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#15. In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal to institutions.

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#16. The science of nonviolence can alone lead one to pure democracy.

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#17. The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

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

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#19. Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.

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#20. True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim to represent.

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#21. 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 in the holy name of liberty or democracy?

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

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#23. No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it.

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#24. Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness ... are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy.

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

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#26. To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their oneness, and should insist upon choosing as their representatives only such persons as are good and true.

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#27. The line of demarcation between democracy and monocracy is often thin, but rigid and stronger than unbreakable steel.

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#28. In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village.

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#29. A born democrat is a born disciplinarian.

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#30. Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible.

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

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#32. The voice of the people may be said to be God's voice, the voice of the Panchayat.

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#33. Democracy and violence can ill go together.

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#34. The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.

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