I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. — 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
Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to pure democracy.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to say, I do not believe in God. For God permits all things to be said of Him… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament. — 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 Image
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 Image
So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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 Image
Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
