Mahatma Gandhi - Evil Quotes

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I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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Anger, lust and such other evil passions raging in the heart are the real untouchables.

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

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

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If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.

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For a bowl of water give a goodly meal; For a kindly greeting bow thou down with zeal; For a simple penny pay thou back with gold; If thy life be rescued, life do not withhold. Thus the words and actions of the wise regard; Every little service tenfold they reward. But the truly noble know all men as one, And return with gladness good for evil done.

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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.

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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.

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Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

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

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The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions of men and women.
An armed conflict between nations horrifies us. But the economic war is no better than an armed conflict. This is like a surgical operation. An economic war is prolonged torture. And its ravages are no less terrible than those depicted in the literature on war properly so called. We think nothing of the other because we are used to its deadly effects. …
The movement against war is sound. I pray for its success. But I cannot help the gnawing fear that the movement will fail if it does not touch the root of all evil — man's greed.

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

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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.

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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.

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You assist an unjust administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil.
A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.

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