Mahatma Gandhi Evil Quotations

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

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

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

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.

Evil is, good or truth misplaced.

You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees.

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

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

It is the function of God Rama to destroy evil, wherever it occurs and it is equally the function of God Rama to give to his devotees like Bibhishana a free charter of irrevocable self-government.

Ramanama can be used only for a good, never for an evil end, or else thieves and robbers would be the greatest devotees.

Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.

I shall never know God if I do not wrestle with and against evil, even at the cost of life itself.

It is as much our obligation not to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good

Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non­resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self­suffering.

Non-cooperatio n with evil is a sacred duty.

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

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

Real non-co-operation is non-co-operation with evil and not with the evil-doer.

Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil.

A nonviolent warrior knows no leaving the battle. He rushes into the mouth of himsa, never even once harbouring an evil thought.

Religion taught us to return good for evil.

Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral.

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

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.

There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness.

It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say.

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

A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse.

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.

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.

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

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.

To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing to the ear. But if He is held responsible for the good, it follows that He has to be responsible for the evil too.

I call God long-suffering and patient precisely because He permits evil in the world. I know that He has no evil in Him and yet if there is evil, He is the author of it and yet untouched by it.

It is my conviction that the root of evil is the want of a living God.

He who has a living faith in God will not do evil deeds with name of God on his lips.

In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil.

Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan.

Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.

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

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