Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Lord, Bless our enemies; have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

We must fight for peace bravely as we fought in war.

World peace through nonviolent means is neither absurd nor unattainable. All other methods have failed. Thus we must begin anew. Nonviolence is a good starting point. Those of us who believe in this method can be voices of reason, sanity, and understanding amid the voices of violence, hatred, and emotion. We can very well set a mood of peace out of which a system of peace can be built.

Gandhi was right: if we all live by 'an eye for an eye' the whole world will be blind. The only way out is forgiveness.

We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

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

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

I am opposed to war, to killing people, to any kind of hatred and violence.

There is an alternative to war. It has been with us forever.

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

History is not hatred.

I did not want bloodshed. I did not want my people killed. I did not want anybody killed....I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people.

The struggle between Israelis and Palestinians is a perfect reflection of the struggle between fear and forgiveness that rages within us all.

Hatred will never win.

A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil, that good may come of it... It is as great presumption to send our passions upon God's errands, as to palliate them with God's name... We are too ready to retailiate, rather than forgive, or gain by love and information. And yet we could hurt no man that we believe loves us. Let us try then what Love will do: for if men did once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us. Force may subdue, but Love gains: and he that forgives first, wins the laurel.