Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

It has taken us centuries of thought and mockery to shake the medieval system. -- With this in view I have taken as impulses, instincts, or needs certain driving forces in the human species as we know it at present, and argued for such social and economic changes as will give them new, free, and varied expression. To take even this first step towards a happy society is a herculean task. After it has been accomplished, generations to come will see what the creature [us] will do next. We none of us know; and we should be thoroughly on our guard against all those who pretend that they do

I have always believed that on important issues, the leaders must lead. Where the leaders fail to lead, and people are really concerned about it, the people will take the lead and make the leaders follow.

Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act.

Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.

Journalism is about results. It's about affecting your community or your society in the most progressive way.

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past.

I'm an agent of change all day long, and I want to meet other people like that.

A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing.

The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

When laws, customs, or institutions cease to be beneficial to man, they cease to be obligatory.

The Great Society has arrived and the task of our generation is to bring it under control.

Not men but measures"—a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.

Your imagination, your initiative, and your indignation will determine whether we build a society where progress is the servant of our needs, or a society where old values and new visions are buried under unbridled growth. For in your time we have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society, and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, insofar as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

America needs to be challenged.

It is the men who makes a city.

To build socialism means not only building gigantic factories and flour mills. This is essential but not enough for building socialism. People must grow in mind and heart.

Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also and keep pace with the times

It is time that we labored for the happiness of the people. Legislators who are to bring light and order into the world must pursue their course with inexorable tread, fearless and unswerving as the sun.

In a progressive country change is constant;… change … is inevitable

We would be in trouble as a society if there wasn't a constant pressure to make reforms and to be just.