"However much I may sympathise with and..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.
More by Mahatma Gandhi
“A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.”
“Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.”
“Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.”
More on Nonviolence
“Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.”
“One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.”
“Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa.”