Mahatma Gandhi Obedience Quotations

Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive.

A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.

Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.

Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.

Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.

Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.

Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.

In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file.

Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.

Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.

Through Khadi we teach the people the art of civil obedience to an institution which they have built up for themselves.