Mahatma Gandhi Liberty Quotations

My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint.

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.

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

Liberty never meant the license to do anything at will.

Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.

Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.

We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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?