Mahatma Gandhi Quotes on Governance
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If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would descent upon India from heaven. But I am painfully aware that that event is far off as yet.
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The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. That State is the best governed which is governed the least.
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It is not good to run public institutions on permanent funds.
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Corruption ought not to be an inevitable product of democracy.
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I don't know which is the greater task: to decentralise a top-heavy civilization or to prevent an ancient civilization from becoming centralised and top-heavy. In both cases the core of the problem is to discover what constitutes a good civilization, then proclaim it to the people and help them to erect it.
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The spirit of democracy cannot be imposed from without. It has to come from within.