Mahatma Gandhi Rights Quotations

Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.

If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos.

Rights of true citizenship accrue only to those who serve the State to which they belong.

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

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

What is equality of rights between a giant and a dwarf?

No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.

If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek.

The true source of rights is duty.

Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights.

In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties.

Violence begins with the fork.

If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape us like a will-o'-the-wisp.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.

Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights.

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

The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.