Mahatma Gandhi Quotes about Violence - Page 2

The Koran says that there can be no heaven for one who sheds the blood of an innocent neighbour.

The Koran says that there can be no heaven for one who sheds the blood of an innocent neighbour.

Mahatma Gandhi

Blood, Heaven, Violence

Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Hindu Dharma”, p.125, Orient Paperbacks

Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

Men, Violence, Mankind

Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.32, New Directions Publishing

Our aim is not to do things by violence to opponents.

Mahatma Gandhi

Opponents, Violence, Aim

Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.218, Vintage

I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race.

Mahatma Gandhi

Race, Risk, Violence

My dictionary has no such expression as a violent fight.

Mahatma Gandhi

Fighting, Expression, Violence

Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side with violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

Violence, Sides, Operations

Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.100, Penguin Books India

If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.

Mahatma Gandhi

Wish, May, Violence

The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.

Mahatma Gandhi

Anarchy, Violence, Violent

Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.69, New Directions Publishing

Better than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.

Mahatma Gandhi

Courage, Battle, Violence

Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “Hindu Dharma”

The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind.

Mahatma Gandhi

Mind, Weakness, Violence

Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.128, Rajpal & Sons

That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non-violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

Looks, Opponents, Violence

Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you.

Mahatma Gandhi

Practice, Needs, Violence

Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness

Mahatma Gandhi

Darkness, Violence, Prove To Me

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Mahatma Gandhi

Peace, Truth, Violence

Surendra Varmā, Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Metaphysical Foundation of Mahatma Gandhi's Thought”

India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.

Mahatma Gandhi

Suffering, India, Violence

Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence

Mahatma Gandhi

Outcomes, Violence, Permanent

Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.43, Hackett Publishing

Nothing enduring can be built on violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

Violence, Endure, Built

Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.97, Oxford University Press

What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.

Mahatma Gandhi

Doe, Violence, Language

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

Soul, Violence, Heat

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Law, Violence, Brutes

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.54, Courier Corporation

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

Mahatma Gandhi

Inspirational, Machines, Violence

Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.242, Penguin Books India

Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

Views, Opponents, Violence

Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion.

Mahatma Gandhi

Outcomes, Violence, Belief

Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.78, A&C Black

Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.

Mahatma Gandhi

Running, Doe, Violence

Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.98, A&C Black

What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength.

Mahatma Gandhi

Giving Up, Violence, Wanted

Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence”, Clarendon Press