Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.

If you are confident in yourself and however you want yourself to be presented, and you're doing well and doing it because you want to do it and not because someone is pressuring you, then more power to you.

Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.

Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is of right, absolute.

The essence of freedom is that each of us shares in the shaping of his own destiny.

I believe everybody got the right to live their own life the way they want to.

Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.

Different women feel empowered in different ways, and it's not right to tell someone what they can and cannot do.

There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth going to jail for. I would rather be a free pauper than a rich slave. I would rather die in abject poverty with my convictions than live in inordinate riches with the lack of self respect.

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

We have reached the point where we are now possessed of sufficient information for each individual human to dare to exercise the option to "make it" rather than having to depend on the decisions of an educated elite.

What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom.

How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her?

We want to be in control of our lives. Whether we are jungle fighters, craftsmen, company men, gamesmen, we want to be in control. And when the government erodes that control, we are not comfortable.

We can't have a freedom struggle without free choice.

Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency.

We have to bring back the individual. Management has smothered the individual.

It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.

The natural state of man is to want to be free. To have opportunities. To have choices.

The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.

No man can be truly free whose liberty is dependent upon the thought, feeling and action of others, and who has himself no means in his own hands for guarding, protecting, defending and maintaining that liberty