Mahatma Gandhi Quotes about Fighting

Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.

Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.

Fighting, Choices, Patriotism

Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.99, A&C Black

I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of them are without work and die of hunger on the streets. I want to secure employment and livelihood not only to part of the human race, but for all. I will not have the enrichment of a few at the expense of the community. At present the machine is helping a small minority to live on the exploitation of the masses. The motive force of this minority is not humanity or love of their kind, but greed and avarice.

Mahatma Gandhi

Fighting, Men, Thinking

Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Fighting, Vision, Different

A satyagrahi, whilst he is ever ready to fight, must be equally eager for peace.

Mahatma Gandhi

Fighting, Satyagraha, Ready

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

Fighting, Men, Evil

Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.

Mahatma Gandhi

War, Fighting, Two Nations

Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.85, A&C Black

I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus the very right to live accrues to us only when we do the duty of citizenship of the world. From this one fundamental statement, perhaps it is easy enough to define the duties of Man and Woman and correlate every right to some corresponding duty to be first performed. Every other right can be shown to be a usurpation hardly worth fighting for.

Mahatma Gandhi

Wise, Mother, Fighting

Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Supplementary volume”

No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.

Mahatma Gandhi

Fighting, Justice, Reform

Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.578, GENERAL PRESS

A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice ninety-five as against five of the enemy, faces death.

Mahatma Gandhi

Fighting, Sacrifice, Knowing

Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself

Mahatma Gandhi

Running, Lying, Fighting

Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid. The Valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone.

Mahatma Gandhi

Fighting, Numbers, Delight

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.54, Courier Corporation

If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase.

Mahatma Gandhi

Fighting, Sacrifice, Democracy

Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Gandhiji Expects: What the Father of the Nation Expected of People's Representatives”

Enter with me into the sufferings, not only of the people of India but of the whole world. Nonviolence is a more active and real fight against wickedness than retaliation whose very nature is to increase wickedness. It is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

Mahatma Gandhi

Real, Fighting, People

My dictionary has no such expression as a violent fight.

Mahatma Gandhi

Fighting, Expression, Violence

Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.

Mahatma Gandhi

Mean, Fighting, May

Mahatma Gandhi (1944*). “Gandhi Against Fascism”

I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India.

Mahatma Gandhi

Fighting, India, Language

Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gandhigrams”

The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint.

Mahatma Gandhi

Fighting, Self, Liberty

Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.

Mahatma Gandhi

War, Fighting, Essence

Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.345, Grove Press

Anything which is a hindrance to the fight of the soul is a delusion and a snare, even like the body which often does hinder you in the path of salvation.

Mahatma Gandhi

Fighting, Soul, Doe

Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence”, Clarendon Press

Celebration of Independence Day with great pomp and show was quite appropriate when we were fighting for independence which we had neither seen nor handled. Now we have handled it and we seem to be disillusioned. At least - I am, even if you are not. What are we celebrating today? Surely, not our disillusionment.

Mahatma Gandhi

Fighting, Hypocrisy, Independence

A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.

Mahatma Gandhi

Fighting, Virtue, Prove

Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.105, Tara Publishing

A soldier fights with an irresistible strength when he has blown up his bridges and burnt his boats. Even so, it is with a soldier of ahimsa.

Mahatma Gandhi

Fighting, Bridges, Soldier

Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

I may fight the British ruler, but I do not hate the English or their language. In fact, I appreciate their literary treasures.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hate, Fighting, Appreciate

Can a general fight on the strength of soldiers, who, he knows, have no faith in him?

Mahatma Gandhi

Faith, Fighting, Soldier

Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Satyagraha (non-violent Resistance)”

It amazes me to find an intelligent person who fights against something which he does not at all believe exists.

Mahatma Gandhi

Atheist, Believe, Fighting