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title: "9 Kill Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi"
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> [If you must kill English officials, why not kill me instead?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/if-you-must-kill-english-officials-why-not-kill-me-instead/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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> [Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/ahimsa-is-the-eradication-of-the-desire-to-injure-or-to-kill/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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> [I shall die, but I will not kill.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-shall-die-but-i-will-not-kill/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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> [I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-am-prepared-to-die-but-there-is-no-cause-for-which-i-am-prepared-to/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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> [There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/there-are-many-causes-i-would-die-for-there-is-not-a-single-cause-i/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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> [A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/a-satyagrahi-is-dead-to-his-body-even-before-the-enemy-attempts-to/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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> [My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/my-dharma-teaches-me-to-give-my-life-for-the-sake-of-others-without/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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> [Satyagraha is a force that has come to stay. No force in the world can kill it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/satyagraha-is-a-force-that-has-come-to-stay-no-force-in-the-world-can/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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> [You may pluck out my eyes, but that cannot kill me. You may chop off my nose, but that will not kill…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/you-may-pluck-out-my-eyes-but-that-cannot-kill-me-you-may-chop-off-my/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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## Other authors on Kill

## 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/)

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