All MAHATMA GANDHI Quotes about “Evil”

“You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.”
“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.”
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.”
“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.”
“Non-co-operation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil.”
“The principle of ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, by hatred, by wishing ill to anybody.”
“Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be. Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practised, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.”
“The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.”
“Evil is, good or truth misplaced.”
“You cannot cure a lesser evil by a greater evil.”
“My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action.”
“Nonviolent non-co-operation with evil means co-operation with all that is good.”
“The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized.”
“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.”
“Real non-co-operation is non-co-operation with evil and not with the evil-doer.”
“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.”
“It is my conviction that the root of evil is the want of a living God.”

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