The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. That State is the best governed which is governed the least.


From Discussion with BG Kher and others, August 15, 1940. Gandhi's Wisdom Box (1942), edited by Dewan Ram Parkash, p. 67 also in Collected works of Mahatma Gandhi Vol. 79 (PDF), p. 122


The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. That State is the best governed which is governed the least.

The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. That State is the best governed which is governed the least.

The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. That State is the best governed which is governed the least.

The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. That State is the best governed which is governed the least.