Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Evil
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Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan.
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Evil is, good or truth misplaced.
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Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.
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A nonviolent warrior knows no leaving the battle. He rushes into the mouth of himsa, never even once harbouring an evil thought.
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We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than any other evil. ...Disease increases in proportion to the increase to the number of doctors in a place.
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If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.
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Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil.
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I may not unnerve myself while I can struggle against evil.
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In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evildoer. I am endeavoring to show my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiplies evil and that evil can only be sustained by violence. Withdrawal of support of evil requires complete abstention from violence. Non-violence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-cooperation with evil.
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He who has a living faith in God will not do evil deeds with name of God on his lips.
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War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface.
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It is as much our obligation not to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good
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Truth and untruth often co-exist; good and evil often are found together
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Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral.
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Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no distinction between virtue and vice, good and evil. Man, being a free agent, knows these distinctions, and when he follows his higher nature, shows himself far superior to the brute, but when he follows his baser nature can show himself lower than the brute.
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The principle of ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, by hatred, by wishing ill to anybody.
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Religion taught us to return good for evil.
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Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking, or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; to me, the female sex is not the weaker sex.
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Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be. Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practised, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.
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A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.
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A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse.
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The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized.
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It is my conviction that the root of evil is the want of a living God.
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There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness.
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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 the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy. What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals? The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty.
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Nonviolent non-co-operation with evil means co-operation with all that is good.
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Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
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Non-co-operation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil.
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Non-cooperatio n with evil is a sacred duty.
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Children inherit the qualities of the parents, no less than their physical features. Environment does play an important part, but the original capital on which a child starts in life is inherited from its ancestors. I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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Mahatma Gandhi
- Born: October 2, 1869
- Died: January 30, 1948
- Occupation: Civil rights leader
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