Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

If, before undertaking some action, you must obtain the permission of society-you are not free, whether such permission is granted to you or not. Only a slave acts on permission. A permission is not a right.

Nobody is going to dictate our freedom.

In England, your life is your life.

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

The more liberty you give away the more you will have.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Freedom has been used throughout history to mean different things…. In the Civil War the North fought for individual freedom while the South fought for community freedom.

All they wanted was freedom.

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

At first man was enslaved by the gods, but he broke their chains… Then he was enslaved by the kings, but he broke their chains… He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race, but he broke their chains... He declared to all his brothers that man has rights that neither god or king nor other men can take away from him no matter what their number. For his is the right of man. And there is no right on earth above this right

Every man is by … natural right, the master of his own thoughts

Liberty is that principle of spontaneity, or self-determination, which constitutes us as agents, or which gives us a command over our actions, rendering them properly ours, and not effects of the operation of any foreign cause

He who has stopped to calculate what liberty will cost has renounced liberty in his heart

He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave.

Freedom to reject is the only freedom

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

I believe in individual freedom and right to decide how and with whom I will live my life.

Swaraj, without any qualifying clause, includes that which is better than the best one can conceive or have today.

I believe in human liberty as I believe in the wine of life. There is no salvation for men in the pitiful condescension of industrial masters. Guardians have no place in a land of freemen.

Our lives are bound by physical limits, familial ties, political conditions, and geographical restrictions. Individual freedom takes us beyond them all.

My feeling is that whatever people elect to do, insofar as they don't deny the rights of others, every effort should be made to defend their right to do it.

Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.