Mahatma Gandhi - Law Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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My joy was boundless. I had learnt the true practice of law. I had learnt to find out the better side of human nature and to enter men's hearts. I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby - not even money, certainly not my soul.

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The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

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Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help from the government.

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

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It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us we would have become extinct long ago. And yet, the tragedy of it is that the so-called civilised men and nations conduct themselves as if the basis of society was violence.

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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.

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

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Jesus lived and died in vain if He did not teach us to regulate the whole of life by the eternal law of love.

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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...

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

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

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

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

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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.

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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.

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

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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.

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It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.

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