Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Torture

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  You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Wise, Peace

  Gandhi, Mahatma “Inspiring Thoughts”, Rajpal & Sons

• They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Body, May

• How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Independence, Bidding

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.300, Vintage

• Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings... I abhor [animal] experimentation with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence... The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Animal, Greatness, Men

• There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the state, to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Voice, Tears

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

• Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Bird, May

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.364, Oxford University Press

• To bear all kinds of tortures without a murmur of resentment is not possible for a human being without the strength that comes from God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Bears, Resentment

  Surendra Varmā, Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Metaphysical Foundation of Mahatma Gandhi's Thought”

• We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Government, History, Suffering

  Mahatma Gandhi (1930). “Young India”

• We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Compassion, Able, Should

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Collected Works”

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