Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

It's much easier to be at peace than it is to hate somebody. It's much easier to love somebody than to fight with them.

Hate cannot overcome hate; only love can do that.

Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.

Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile.

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.

Hatreds never cease by hatreds in this world. By love alone they cease. This is an ancient Law.

Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love.

Man invents war. Man discovers peace. He invents war from without. He discovers peace from within. War man throws. Peace man sows. The smile of war is the flood of human blood. The smile of peace is the love, below, above.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

For me, I have nobody who I hate. I don't have place for hate in life.

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

Truth and love will overcome lies and hatred.

Do I need to argue to Your Honor that cruelty only breeds cruelty? That hatred only causes hatred; that if there is any way to soften this human heart which is hard enough at its best, if there is any way to kill evil and hatred and all that goes with it, it is not through evil and hatred and cruelty; it is through charity, and love, and understanding?

For a person who cherishes compassion and love, the practice of tolerance is essential, and for that, and enemy is indispinsable. So we should be grateful to our enemies, for it is they who can best help us to develop a tranquil mind.

I think we should have understanding and love and peace. I mean, peace and love has been my situation. You hear that in the song. I'm trying to promote that now: peace and love and understanding.

Love and compassion are the pillars of world peace.

Hate does not produce love, and by hate one cannot remake the world.

Never by hatred is hatred appeased, but it is appeased by kindness. This is an eternal truth.

Developing love and compassion and reducing anger and spite is a universal activity which requires no faith in any religion whatsoever

Happiness is loving your enemies.

People who hate often do so with great conviction. What we need are more people who love with conviction.

I am pleading for the future; I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we can learn by, reason and judgment and understanding and faith that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest attribute of man.

I have learned that one should say "Peace!" to those who shout their hatred for one's being and presence or at one's passage.