10 Mahatma Gandhi Quotes on Violence

Mahatma Gandhi quotes on violence

6. Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

7. I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection.

38. An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.

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

176. If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone.

185. It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, ruled us we should have become extinct long ago. And yet, the tragedy of it is that the so-called civilized men and nations conduct themselves as if the basis of society was violence.

213. The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

226. There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.

242. What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

253. The Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs.