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.

What is liberty? There is no such thing as absolute liberty!

The solution of the social problem is in liberty.

… it [liberty] denotes not merely freedom from bodily restraint, but also the right of the individual to engage in any of the common occupations of life, to acquire useful knowledge, to marry, establish a home, bring up children, to worship God according to the dictates of one's own conscience and generally, to enjoy those privileges long recognized in common law as essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men.

The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual's right to it is sacred - regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.

It is essential that the young people of this country learn to respect the right of every man and woman to seek his or her happiness with minimal interference from the government.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private liberty.

I have one abiding religion-human liberty.

The problem with this world is that there isn't enough liberty and freedom.

Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.

If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

Liberty is always freedom from the government.

Just as man must have liberty to think and speak, so he must have liberty in food, dress, and marriage, and in every other thing, so long as he does not injure others.

I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.

I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual.

In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.

I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.

I believe, basically, that individual freedom is very important.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

The sanctity of a woman's right to control her own destiny is a moral force of its own... I came to realize that the question of choice is to be answered, not by the state, but by the individual.

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

The absolute rights of individuals may be resolved into the right of personal security, the right of personal liberty, and the right to enjoy and acquire property