All MAHATMA GANDHI Quotes about “Duty”

“Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence.”
“A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.”
“Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.”
“Now the man on duty used to be changed from time to time. Once one of these men, without giving me the slightest warning, without even asking me to leave the footpath, pushed and kicked me into the street. I was dismayed. Before I could question him as to his behaviour, Mr Coates, who happened to be passing the spot on horseback, hailed me and said: 'Gandhi, I have seen everything. I shall gladly be your witness in court if you proceed against the man. I am very sorry you have been so rudely assaulted.'”
“If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape us like a will-o'-the-wisp.”
“Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.”
“Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves.”
“When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace.”
“When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.”
“Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.”
“A friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.”
“Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter”
“Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.”
“Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights.”
“No displeasure, even of the dearest friends, can put me off the duty I see clearly in front of me.”
“At times, non-co-operation becomes as much a duty as co-operation.”

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