Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Evil

• When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall... think of it, always.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sad

  "Fictional character: Mahatma Gandhi". "Gandhi", 1982.

• You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good man will therefore resist an evil system or administration with his whole soul.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Thinking, Order

  "Non-Violent Resistance". Book by Mahatma Gandhi, Courier Corporation, p. 238, 2012.

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Peace, War

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.43, Hackett Publishing

• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Children, Evil

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.276, Courier Corporation

• Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Evil, Diversity, Patriotism

  Courtroom statement, Ahmadabad, India, 23 Mar. 1922

• When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sad, Peace, Truth

• The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Atheist, Fear

• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sex, Men, Evil

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.156, A&C Black

• Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love You, Men, Yield

  Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”

• Non-co-operation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Evil, Operations, Protest

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.162, Tara Publishing

• A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wise, Law, Evil

• The principle of ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, by hatred, by wishing ill to anybody.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hurt, Lying, Evil

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.226, Tara Publishing

• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dark, Doctors, Medicine

• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hate, Men, Two

  An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth pt. 4, ch. 9 (1929)

• Truth and untruth often co-exist; good and evil often are found together

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Truth, Evil

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strong, War, Differences

  Non-Violence in Peace and War (1942) vol. 1, ch. 142

• The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Evil, Interesting

  Mahatma Gandhi (1930). “Young India”

• Evil is, good or truth misplaced.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Evil, Misplaced

• You cannot cure a lesser evil by a greater evil.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Evil, Cures, Lesser Evil

  Source: gandhiking.ning.com

• For a bowl of water give a goodly meal; For a kindly greeting bow thou down with zeal; For a simple penny pay thou back with gold; If thy life be rescued, life do not withhold. Thus the words and actions of the wise regard; Every little service tenfold they reward. But the truly noble know all men as one, And return with gladness good for evil done.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wise, Simple, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.31, Courier Corporation

• War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Courage, War, Evil

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.38, New Directions Publishing

• A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Brother, Evil, Purpose

  Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India, 1924-1926”

• My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Evil, Gita, Action

  Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Hindu Dharma”, p.125, Orient Paperbacks

• Nonviolent non-co-operation with evil means co-operation with all that is good.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Evil, Operations

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

• The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Power, Evil, Soil

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