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To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.

To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.

Mahatma Gandhi
Self, Deception, Religion
Mahatma Gandhi (1946). “Daridra-Narayana: Edited & Published by Anand T. Hingorani”

No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.

Mahatma Gandhi
Religion, Way, Aspire
Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion”, Clarendon Press

Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.

Mahatma Gandhi
Mean, Religion, Compulsion
Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the wrong committed but by the right conduct.

Mahatma Gandhi
Religion, Atrocities, Institutions

Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible.

Mahatma Gandhi
Public Opinion, Elements, Ends
Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.142, Hackett Publishing

Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth.

Mahatma Gandhi
Determination, Relentless, Satyagraha
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

Satyagraha is an attribute of the spirit within.

Mahatma Gandhi
Spirit, Attributes, Satyagraha
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Satyagraha (non-violent Resistance)”

All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness.

Mahatma Gandhi
Expression, Fasting, Public Opinion
Mahatma Gandhi (1941). “The Indian States' Problem”

The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying.

Mahatma Gandhi
Art, Strong, Fighting
Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.

Mahatma Gandhi
Truth, Character, Self
Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

Naked violence repels like the naked skeleton shorn of flesh, blood and the velvety skin.

Mahatma Gandhi
Skeletons, Blood, Skins
Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.231, Tara Publishing

Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.

Mahatma Gandhi
Issues, Violence, Sooner Or Later
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Want, Violence
Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Collected Works”

The state represents violence in a concentrated and organize form.

Mahatma Gandhi
Violence, States, Form
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.70, Rajpal & Sons

To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given up.

Mahatma Gandhi
Violence, Given, Workers
Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls.

Mahatma Gandhi
Soul, Violence
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.

Mahatma Gandhi
West, Violence, Environment
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.258, Rajpal & Sons

It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed.

Mahatma Gandhi
Judging, Weapons, Violence
Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”

The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up.

Mahatma Gandhi
Vegetables, Giving, Violence
Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.39, A&C Black

To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

Mahatma Gandhi
Religious, Yield, Self
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.230, Rajpal & Sons

None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.

Mahatma Gandhi
Flesh, Violence, Renounce

Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.

Mahatma Gandhi
Self, Done, Violence
Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.

Mahatma Gandhi
Mean, Self, Passive Resistance
Mahatma Gandhi, Anthony J. Parel (1997). “Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings”, p.146, Cambridge University Press

For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from.

Mahatma Gandhi
Differences, Fundamentals, Violence
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Raghavan Iyer (1987). “The moral and political writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-violent resistance and social transformation”

The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs.

Mahatma Gandhi
Names, Bombs, Violence
Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.218, Tara Publishing