Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Killing

• If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Blood, Calm, Killing

• Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Courage, Brother

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.81, A&C Black

• Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the act of killing others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sacrifice, Men, Innocent Man

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.90, Courier Corporation

• Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Suffering, Excitement

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

• I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Violence, Terrorism, Killing

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.208, Tara Publishing

• To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Death, Essence, Killing

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

• Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Violence, Technique, Doe

  Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Collected Works”

• To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Deception, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1946). “Daridra-Narayana: Edited & Published by Anand T. Hingorani”

• Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Done, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

• Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Art, Training, Dying

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.77, A&C Black

• To die without killing is the badge of a satyagrahi.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Killing, Badges, Satyagraha

  Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

• My religion teaches me that I should, by my personal conduct, instill into the minds of those who might hold different views the conviction that cow killing is a sin.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Views, Mind, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

• Labour, because it chose to remain unintelligent, either became subservient, or insolently believed in damaging the capitalists' goods and machinery or even in killing the capitalists.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Killing, Machinery, Goods

  Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

• My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Animal, Doctrine, Able

  Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “Hindu Dharma”

• Better than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Courage, Battle, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “Hindu Dharma”

• Destruction is not the law of humans. Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Brother, Men, Hands

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.77, A&C Black

• Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for non-violence. Violence does not mean the emancipation from fear, but discovering the means of combating the cause of fear. Nonviolence, on the other hand, has no cause for fear. The votary of nonviolence has to cultivate the capacity for sacrifice of the highest type in order to be free from fear. He recks not if he should lose his land, his wealth, his life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Art, Mean, Sacrifice

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