Mahatma Gandhi Law Quotations

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

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

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

We are less than atoms, I say, because the atom obeys the law of its being, whereas we in the insolence of our ignorance deny the law of nature. But I have no argument to address to those who have no faith.

If that is the law of life we must work it out in daily exisitance. Wherever there are wars, wherever we are confronted with an opponent, conquer by love. I have found that the certain law of love has answered in my own life as the law of destruction has never done.

An unjust law in itself is an act of violence.

I do not believe that the spiritual law works on a field of its own. On the contrary, it expresses itself only through the ordinary activities of life. It thus affects the economic, the social and the political fields.

Is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater courage? Without her, man would not be. If nonviolence is to be the law of our being, the future is with women.

Swadeshi is the only doctrine consistent with the law of humanity and love.

"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.

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

Cow-slaughter can never be stopped by law.

Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?

The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to the laws laid down for him.

Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.

When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.

War knows no law except that of might.

Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.

A satyagrahi is nothing if not instinctively law-abiding.

A satyagrahi cannot go to law for a personal wrong.

What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom.

Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.

Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle.

Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.

Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.

When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.

If people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of its shortage.

The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.

Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute.

Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances.

For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering.

Reasoned and willing obedience to the laws of the State is the first lesson in non-co-operation.

Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.

Man the law-giver will have to pay a dreadful penalty for the degradation he has imposed upon the so called weaker sex.

A seeker after truth, a follower of the law of Love, cannot hold anything against tomorrow.

The law of love knows no bounds of space or time.

Absolute calm is not the law of ocean. And it is the same with the ocean of life.

Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.

If there was any teacher in the world who insisted upon the inexorable law of cause and effect, it was Gautam, and yet my friends, the Buddhists outside India, would, if they could, avoid the effects of their own acts.

We do not know the laws of God, nor their working.

The law an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

The Law which governs all life is God.

The Law is God. Anything attributed to Him is not a mere attribute. He is Truth, Love, Law and a million things that human ingenuity can name.

The Law and the Lawgiver are one.

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.

God's laws are eternal and unalterable and not separable from God Himself.

God Himself has reserved no right of revision of His own laws nor is there any need for Him for any such revision.

One who hooks his fortune to ahimsa, the law of love, daily lessens the circle of destruction and to that extent promotes life and love.

Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.

There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.

Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force.

... the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties driven asunder.

The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.

As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.

If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.

If love wasn't the law of life, life would not have persisted in the midst of death.

The Law of Love, call it attraction, affinity, cohesion if you like, governs the world.

A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.

So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to be so-called laws of war, which made it tolerable. Now we know the truth. War knows no law except that of might. The atomic bomb brought an empty victory but it resulted for the time being in destroying the soul of Japan. What has happened to the soul of the destroying nation is yet too early to see...

When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.

That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach.

There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the state, to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being.

Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.

The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.

The fullest life is impossible without an immovable belief in a Living Law in obedience to which the whole universe moves.

It is easy enough to say, I do not believe in God. For God permits all things to be said of Him with impunity. he looks at our acts. And any breach of His Law carries with it, not its vindictive, but it purifying, compelling punishment.

Love is the law of life.

It is the law of love that rules mankind.

Unrestricted individualism is the law of the beast of the jungle.

Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.

I believe that the sum total of the energy of mankind is not to bring us down but to lift us up, and that is the result of the definite, if unconscious, working of the law of love. The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.

Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.

I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would a well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living.

In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force.

Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not.

If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.

The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone far enough and so it is not possible for everyone to see all its workings.

As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity...If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior...If non-violence is the law of our being, the future is with women.

Study men following the law of their higher nature, the law of love, so that when you grow to manhood, you will have improved your heritage.