Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

One with the law is a majority.

Those who go along get along.

What you guys want, I'm for.

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

If you want to get along, go along.

Obedience completes itself in understanding.

Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb.

If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.

Obedience to the law is itself a moral duty.

So long as a minority conforms to the majority, it is not even a minority.

The difference between being out of step with a dictator and being out of step with the democratic majority is practically negligible. The important thing is to be in step.

Hold fast to the rope of Allah and be not divided.

Very well; whatever you say is necessary must be done.

The wisdom of the few may be the light of mankind, but the interest of the few is not the profit of mankind, nor of a commonwealth.

You must have a majority to make peace, not just a good idea.

Conformity--the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

My style is not to challenge anything.

Whatever I have said is in the interest of the system, and it has never been taken amiss.

If they give you good words to say, and you don't get in the way of them, you'll be OK.

I think for me, wearing the helmet and being part of the Stormtroopers felt so strange. Like, so this is what it feels like to just be one of the many. And to look the same, and to have to do the same thing. To be under the same orders. This is what it feels like.

The voice of authority speaks not for the one but for the many; authority figures have a strong and rapid effect on social norms in part because they change our assumptions about what other people think.

I just try to do the things I'm asked to do.

I just want to go wherever they want me at.

We need to encourage and reward those who play by the rules.

Wherever they send us to practice, we will go.