Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

We have many responsibilities, and one cannot expect the full blessings of a kind Providence if he neglects any major duty. A man has duties to his church, his home, his country, and his profession or job.

It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.

Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.

A decent society is not based on rights. It is based on duty. Our duty to one another. To all should be given opportunity; from all responsibility demanded.

Democracy means not merely, I had almost said not so much, the rights of the whole people, as the duties of the whole people.

The object of Socialism is not to render the individual capable of living on his personal resources. That is the theory of radical individualism. Its object is to create in him a greater and greater sense of his dependence upon the state, and, at the same time, to inculcate in him the conviction that he is a part of it and that he has a duty and responsibility toward the state; and that only in so far as he fulfills this duty can he benefit by the advantages of a complete personal and social life.

Property has its duties as well as its rights…. To the neglect of these duties in times past is mainly to be attributed to that diseased state of society in which such crimes can take their rise…. It is not in the enactment of statutes of extraordinary severity, but chiefly in the better and more faithful performance of those duties … that a permanent remedy … is to be sought.

No one can be a good citizen unless he fulfills those domestic duties which are incumbent on his social station and unless he honors all his obligations to society.

The duties are even more important than the rights; and in the long run I think that the reward is ampler and greater for duty well done, than for the insistence upon individual rights.

The true source of rights is duty.

Before I can embrace freedom, I should be aware of what duties I have.

The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties.

In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties.

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

Each generation, as it seeks to advance the common good, must ask anew: 'What are the requirements that governments may reasonably impose upon citizens, and how far do they extend? By appeal to what authority can moral dilemmas be resolved?'

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.

The love of individual freedom has stood in the way of the appreciation of social obligations.

Duty, recognizing an individual's subordination to community welfare, is as important as rights ...

Everyone has to have a sense of duty. A duty to society, to their family. I mean, you name it.

Duty is that mode of action which constitutes the best application of the capacity of the individual to the general advantage.