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Crime Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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Mahatma Gandhi calls an unjust law a form of violence. He says violence spreads from fear of others and that even a simple fork can start it. He condemns murder, air‑power destruction and any act that harms humanity. He also warns that democracy cannot coexist with violence.

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Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence.

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Violence begins with the fork.

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Nothing enduring can be built on violence.

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“Poqerty is the worst form of violence”

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Poverty is the greatest violence.

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An unjust law in itself is an act of violence.

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Democracy and violence can ill go together.

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

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Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

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My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers.

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Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.

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India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.

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What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.

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It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community.

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I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

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One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.

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Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars,…

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In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against…

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The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice,…

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What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren?

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The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain…

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The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or…

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Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to…

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... when all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to…

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Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is…

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What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who…

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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says…

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Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the…

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Destruction is not the law of humans. Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands…

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Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute,…

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What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and…

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Violence is the fear to other's ideals.

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Punishment is God's. He alone is the infallible Judge.

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I look upon air-power for destruction as a terrible crime against humanity.

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Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them.

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Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence.

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

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

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

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Violence is the weapon of weak, non-violence that of the strong.

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Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.

No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

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The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.