 He once said that "the ideally nonviolent state would be an ordered anarchy".While political systems are largely hierarchical, with each layer of authority from the individual to the central government have increasing levels of authority over the layer below, Gandhi believed that society should be the exact opposite, where nothing is done without the consent of anyone, down to the individual.His idea was that true self-rule in a country means that every person rules his or herself and that there is no state which enforces laws upon the people.