Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Hatred

• Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Race, Hatred

  Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

• Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hate, Hatred, Poison

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

• Hatred can be overcome only by love.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Hate, Hatred

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.367, Tara Publishing

• The pure love of one soul can offset the hatred of millions.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Marriage, Hatred

• Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Attitude, War

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

• In the march towards Truth, anger, selfishness, hatred, etc., naturally give way, for otherwise Truth would be impossible to attain. A man who is swayed by passions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Anger, Passion, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (2008). “My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography”, p.362, Jaico Publishing House

• 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

• Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hate, Light, Hatred

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

• My freedom from hatred - I would even claim for myself individually, my love - for those who consider themselves to be my enemies, does not make me blind to their faults.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Hatred, Enemy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

• Non-cooperation is directed not against men but against measures. It is not directed against the Governors, but against the system they administer. The roots of non-cooperation lies not in hatred but in justice if not in love.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lying, Struggle, Men

• It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Single Mom, Hatred, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

• 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)

• I believe that it is impossible to end hatred with hatred.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, War, Believe

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

• I would rather drown myself in the waters of the Sabarmati than harbour hate or animosity in my heart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hate, Heart, Water

  Gandhi (Mahatma) (1924). “Collected works”

• All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Hatred, Enemy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

• The hater hates not for the sake of hatred but because he wants to drive away from his country the hated being or beings.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Hate, Hatred

  Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Collected Works”

• Swadeshism is not a cult of hatred. It is a doctrine of selfless service that has its roots in the purest ahimsa, i.e. love.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Roots, Hatred, Selfless

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.78, Penguin Books India

• Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for violence in the near or distant future.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Hatred, Preparation

  Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Collected Works”

• If Hinduism teaches hatred of Islam or of non-Hindus, it is doomed to destruction.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hatred, Islam, Hinduism

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

• If light can come out of darkness, then alone can love emerge from hatred.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Light, Hatred

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.104, Courier Corporation

• The satyagrahi should not have any hatred in his heart against the opponent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Hatred, Opponents

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.30, New Directions Publishing

• It is a heavy downpour of rain which drenches the soil to fullness; likewise only a profuse shower of love can overcome hatred.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Rain, Hatred

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

• Humankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter - hatred only increases the surface as well as the depth of hatred.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hatred, Violence, Overcoming

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.46, New Directions Publishing

• The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I know that I have not in me as yet that triple purity in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. That is why the world's praise fails to move me, indeed it very often stings me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me to be harder far than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Moving, Passion

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.56, A&C Black

• Fear gone, there can be no hatred.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hatred, Gone, Anticipation

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.56, New Directions Publishing

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