Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.

Mahatma Gandhi

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• I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship. Instead, I believe in searching for a kind of love that somehow involves all of humanity.

  

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• For when God forbids us to kill, he not only prohibits us from open violence, which is not even allowed by the public laws, but he warns us against the commission of those beings which are esteemed lawful among men....Therefore, with regard to this precept of God, there ought to be no exception at all, but that it is always unlawful to put to death a man, whom God willed to be a sacred animal.

  

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• If the Bird does not sing, Kill it.

  

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• They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Kill
  • Obedience
  • Torture