Mahatma Gandhi Hatred Quotations

Love never claims, it ever gives; love never suffers, never resents, never revenges itself. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.

Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non­resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self­suffering.

Hatred is never overcome by hatred but by love.

If we remain nonviolent, hatred will die as everything does from disuse.

Swadeshism is not a cult of hatred. It is a doctrine of selfless service that has its roots in the purest ahimsa, i.e. love.

Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light.

The hater hates not for the sake of hatred but because he wants to drive away from his country the hated being or beings.

The satyagrahi should not have any hatred in his heart against the opponent.

Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for violence in the near or distant future.

All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place.

It is a heavy downpour of rain which drenches the soil to fullness; likewise only a profuse shower of love can overcome hatred.

My freedom from hatred - I would even claim for myself individually, my love - for those who consider themselves to be my enemies, does not make me blind to their faults.

If light can come out of darkness, then alone can love emerge from hatred.

If Hinduism teaches hatred of Islam or of non-Hindus, it is doomed to destruction.

... we have to learn to use that force (love) among all that lives, and in the use of it consists our knowledge of God. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.

Fear gone, there can be no hatred.

Humankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter - hatred only increases the surface as well as the depth of hatred.

It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen.

The pure love of one soul can offset the hatred of millions.

Hatred can be overcome only by love.

Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.

Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.