--- title: "8 Innocent Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi" description: "8 Innocent quotes by Mahatma Gandhi. Plus more from Mahatma Gandhi and more Innocent sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5aa/mahatma-gandhi-23_hands_when-large-numbers-of-wholly-innocent-me_452426.jpg" --- > [When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/when-large-numbers-of-wholly-innocent-men-are-in-jail-we-may-take-it/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5aa/mahatma-gandhi-23_hands_when-large-numbers-of-wholly-innocent-me_452426.jpg) > [Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/nonviolence-is-the-virtue-of-the-manly-the-coward-is-innocent-of-it/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/327/mahatma-gandhi-23_character_nonviolence-is-the-virtue-of-the-manly-t_1051147.jpg) > [Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/liberty-and-democracy-become-unholy-when-their-hands-are-dyed-red/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83f/mahatma-gandhi-23_anti-war_liberty-and-democracy-become-unholy-when_2023151.jpg) > [I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-abhor-vivisection-with-my-whole-soul-all-the-scientific-discoveries/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/58a/mahatma-gandhi-23_animal_i-abhor-vivisection-with-my-whole-soul-a_2032459.jpg) > [The Koran says that there can be no heaven for one who sheds the blood of an innocent neighbour.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/the-koran-says-that-there-can-be-no-heaven-for-one-who-sheds-the/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/107/mahatma-gandhi-23_blood_the-koran-says-that-there-can-be-no-heav_2542291.jpg) > [Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/self-sacrifice-of-one-innocent-man-is-a-million-times-more-potent/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce9/mahatma-gandhi-23_dies_self-sacrifice-of-one-innocent-man-is-a_2794764.jpg) > [Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/animal-experimentation-is-the-blackest-of-all-the-black-crimes-that-a/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d21/mahatma-gandhi-23_able_animal-experimentation-is-the-blackest-o_3101403.jpg) > [A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/a-man-who-was-completely-innocent-offered-himself-as-a-sacrifice-for/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc1/mahatma-gandhi-23_easter_a-man-who-was-completely-innocent-offere_3206571.jpg) ## Other authors on Innocent ## More by Mahatma Gandhi > [I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-do-not-want-to-live-at-the-cost-of-the-life-even-of-a-snake-i/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/devotion-required-by-the-gita-is-no-soft-hearted-effusiveness/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/no-nation-being-under-another-nation-can-accept-gifts-and-kick-at-the/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/so-long-as-we-fear-the-outside-world-we-must-cease-to-think-of-swaraj/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-do-not-want-a-kingdom-or-heaven-what-i-want-is-to-remove-the/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/religions-are-not-for-separating-men-from-one-another-they-are-meant/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-hold-flesh-food-to-be-unsuited-to-our-species-we-err-in-copying-the/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/it-was-only-in-south-africa-that-i-got-over-this-shyness-though-i/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [“Where there is life.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/where-there-is-life/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/if-it-was-wrong-to-seek-god-in-a-stone-how-was-it-right-to-seek-him/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/the-spirit-of-democracy-cannot-be-established-in-the-midst-of/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/champions-are-made-from-something-they-have-deep-inside-of-them-a/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/my-motto-is-unite-now-today-if-you-can-fight-if-you-must-but-in-every/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-have-no-disciples-being-myself-an-aspirant-after-discipleship-and/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/man-becomes-not-the-lord-and-master-of-all-creation-but-he-is-its/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/innocent/mahatma-gandhi/#itemlist", "name": "8 Innocent Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mahatma Gandhi" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/when-large-numbers-of-wholly-innocent-men-are-in-jail-we-may-take-it/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5aa/mahatma-gandhi-23_hands_when-large-numbers-of-wholly-innocent-me_452426.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5aa/mahatma-gandhi-23_hands_when-large-numbers-of-wholly-innocent-me_452426.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5aa/mahatma-gandhi-23_hands_when-large-numbers-of-wholly-innocent-me_452426.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.” — Mahatma Gandhi", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. 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