Naked violence repels like the naked skeleton shorn of flesh, blood and the velvety skin. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I look upon air-power for destruction as a terrible crime against humanity. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren? — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
... when all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Destruction is not the law of humans. Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention." — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share