Skip to content
QuoteQuest

“I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Verification

Attributed

Recorded by a reliable secondary source; exact wording may differ.

Imported from Wikiquote; not yet checked by QuoteQuest against the original source.

Source

Title
Wikiquote: Mahatma Gandhi
Type
reference · Secondary source
Held by
Wikiquote
View source at Wikiquote

Context

"A Word of Explanation" on his work Hind Swaraj (1908) in Young India (January 1921)

Cite this source

Gandhi, Mahatma. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Mahatma Gandhi. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi

Check citations against your institution's style guide; some details may be missing.

Provenance: Wikiquote (CC BY-SA)