Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

In part because they had no choice, right? If you were a slave, you did what the master said. And they said to worship: "You're going to worship with us."

Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

Slavery is the rule. Freedom the exception.

A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.

Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too personal style.

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.

The enslaving of the other is also the enslaving of the self.

Man is everywhere still in chains.

Connivance is the relaxation of slavery, not the definition of liberty.

Liberty is the greatest blessing that men enjoy, and slavery is the heaviest curse that human nature is capable of …. those who are governed at the will of another, and whose property may be taken from them...without their consent...are in the miserable condition of slaves.

… it would be perfectly right for anyone to interfere with you so far as to free those you wilfully and wickedly hold in bondage.

There is no freedom in peaceful slavery.

There are three ways in which a man becomes a slave. He may be born into slavery, or forced into it, or he can deliberately accept his servitude. All three forms flourish in the modern world. Men are born and forced into slavery in Russia and her satellites states. Men in the free world invite slavery when they ask the government to provide complete security, when they surrender their freedom to the "Welfare State."

He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

Being oppressed means the absence of choices

There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.

A well-paid slave is nonetheless a slave.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

This is the difference between slavery and freedom. The slave must do what his superior orders him to do, but the free citizen-and this is what freedom means-is in a position to choose his own way of life.

See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

I don't want to live like a prisoner.