Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Read about some squirrelly guy who claims that he just don't believe in fighting, and I wonder how long the rest of us can count on being free.

We shall use only peaceful means and we shall not permit any other kind of method.

I must say that "Give Peace a Chance" has always seemed to me to be sensible advice.

Poor Wilson did not understand that a frontier which is not defended with bayonets, force and honor cannot be secured by any other principle.

No doubt it requires two to fight. But both of them need not necessarily be fighters. It is, all the same, a fight, even if one goes on beating and the other gets beaten. There is no guarantee that others would behave properly with us even if we remain peaceful and cordial with them.

With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster.

Unless we learn the lesson of nonviolence fully, we shall never do away with the deadly feuds which have been the curse of the Frontier people.

It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.

On my knees, I beg of you to turn away from the paths of violence and to return to the path of peace. Those who resort to violence always claim that only violence brings about change. You must know there is a political, peaceful way to justice.

I don't like to fight.

Violence is absolutely not our method.

I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.

If it's radical to want an end to war and an end to violence, so that we can devote ourselves to the challenges of peace, then I'm pleased to call myself a radical.

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that

Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.

Unless now the world adopts nonviolence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.

The mere absence of war is not peace.

I want peace and am willing to fight for it.

It’s time to stop making arms to kill people with. It’s time to live in calm and peace.

We don't need military weapons in our society. We're not supposed to be at war with one another.

Blessedness is promised to the peacemaker, not to the conqueror.

You'll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. You cannot subjugate a nation forcibly unless you wipe out every man, woman, and child. Unless you wish to use such drastic measures, you must find a way of settling your disputes without resort to arms.

Whenever you have a possibility of going in two ways, either for peace or for war, for peaceful methods of for military methods, in the present age there is a strong prejudice for the peaceful ones. War seldom ever leads to good results.

Refraining from violence is not a sign of weakness in one's faith but a sign that one's faith is unshakeable