Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follow?

And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.

Be it not for me to raise my hand against my elder brother. Now that my father has passed away, let him take the place of my father in my heart.

The father receives his power from God (and from his own father). The teacher finds the soil already prepared for obedience, and the political leader has only to harvest what has been sown.

Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions.

You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.

Patriotism ... for rulers is nothing else than a tool for achieving their power-hungry and money-hungry goals, and for the ruled it means renouncing their human dignity, reason, conscience, and slavish submission to those in power. ... Patriotism is slavery.

Slaves, obey your masters with fear and trembling, in singleness of heart, as you obey Christ.

Whether the institution to be defended is slavery, political absolutism, or the absolutism of the head of a family, we are always expected to judge of it from its best instances; and we are presented with pictures of loving exercise of authority on one side, loving submission to it on the other

The power of the master must be absolute to render the submission of the slave perfect.

Don’t kneel to me. Kneel only to God and thank Him for your freedom

For you must both of you bear in mind that you remain still, as really and truly as ever, your master's property, and therefore it will be justly expected, both by God and man, that you behave and conduct yourselves as obedient and faithful servants.

I love my father. I disagreed with him. But he was my father. He was the boss.

Entire civilisation stands on submission and obedience of mother.

My father gave me discipline.

We are all servants. The only question is whom we will serve.

Natural law. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.

Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!

When you serve your mother and father it is okay to try to correct them once in a while. But if you see that they are not going to listen to you, keep your respect for them and don't distance yourself from them. Work without complaining.

The man who submits to violence is debased by his compliance; but when he submits to that right of authority which he acknowledges in a fellow creature, he rises in some measure above the person who give the command.

I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.

Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.

Go back! Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master.

How could there be any difference between The Messenger and me? I am his slave, his servant, his son. He is the leader, the only spokesman for the Black Muslims.

The severity of the master is more useful than the indulgence of the father.