Law Quotes - Page 360

Reasoned and willing obedience to the laws of the State is the first lesson in non-co-operation.

Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force.

We are less than atoms, I say, because the atom obeys the law of its being, whereas we in the insolence of our ignorance deny the law of nature. But I have no argument to address to those who have no faith.

Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle.

There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.

God's laws are eternal and unalterable and not separable from God Himself.

Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.

Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.

If there was any teacher in the world who insisted upon the inexorable law of cause and effect, it was Gautam, and yet my friends, the Buddhists outside India, would, if they could, avoid the effects of their own acts.

As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.

The Law which governs all life is God.

The Law is God. Anything attributed to Him is not a mere attribute. He is Truth, Love, Law and a million things that human ingenuity can name.

The Law and the Lawgiver are one.

The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.

Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.

There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations.

Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute.

God Himself has reserved no right of revision of His own laws nor is there any need for Him for any such revision.

I do not believe that the spiritual law works on a field of its own. On the contrary, it expresses itself only through the ordinary activities of life. It thus affects the economic, the social and the political fields.

Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances.

A seeker after truth, a follower of the law of Love, cannot hold anything against tomorrow.

When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.

Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.

The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.

A satyagrahi is nothing if not instinctively law-abiding.