Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

The future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conquerer.

The greatest slave in a kingdom is generally the king of it.

The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Independence and Constitution, designing to reduce it to a level with the other provinces long since deprived of all freedom, and to unite all in a common sink of slavery.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

Coalitions are but the unjust subjection of one people to another.

When our kings succeeded to the crown of England, the ministers of that nation took a short way to ruin us … All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principle offices of the kingdom filled with such men as the court of England would be subservient to their designs.

The means of defense against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people.

The ancients, by their system of colonization, made themselves friends all over the known world; the moderns have sought to make subjects, and therefore have made enemies.

As a form of government, imperialism does not seek or require the consent of the governed. It is a pure form of tyranny. The American attempt to combine domestic democracy with such tyrannical control over foreigners is hopelessly contradictory and hypocritical. A country can be democratic or it can be imperialistic, but it cannot be both.

If ever thou be'st bound in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage.

A nation that enslaves another forges its own chains.

No principle, that is possible to be named, can be more self-evidently false than this; or more self-evidently fatal to all political freedom. Yet it triumphed in the field, and is now assumed to be established. If it really be established, the number of slaves, instead of having been diminished by the war, has been greatly increased; for a man, thus subjected to a government that he does not want, is a slave.

Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.

We are the slaves of slaves

This is servitude, To serve th'unwise, or him who hath rebelled Against his worthier, as thine now serve thee, Thyself not free, but to thyself enthralled.

It is harder to release a nation from servitude than to enslave a free nation.

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.

Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.

I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.

The great empire will be torn from limb, the all-powerful one for more than four-hundred years: Great power given to the dark one from slaves come.