Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

I have always thought that Israel, as an independent and sovereign nation, had a right to defend itself.

If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns not with butter.

I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment.

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

Stand your ground. Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here!

Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.

Arm yourselves! Return home and kill every goddamned mine guard on the creeks.

When a people consider themselves compelled by circumstances or by oppression, to appeal to arms and resort to their natural rights, they necessarily submit their cause to the great tribunal of public opinion.

It is a mortal sin for a Catholic to become or remain a member of an organization or society, which arrogates to itself the right to bear arms or to use them against another state.

Israel has a right to defend itself.

Any nation has the right and will indeed defend herself.

All I can say is we will fully utilise our right to self-defence. No one can just do what they want on our borders.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.

Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.

If they attack, we shall fight to the end. If the rockets had remained, we would have used them all and directed them against the very heart of the United States, including New York, in our defense against aggression. But we haven't got them, so we shall fight with what we've got.

Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor.

The laws allow arms to be taken against an armed foe.

The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.

When you use an armament, you use it to defend the civilians. You kill terrorists in order to defend civilians. That's the natural role of any army in the world.

In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.

India was not a pacifist country at all. India placed great emphasis on the higher value on... on violence. But it was never a substitute for not doing anything, or for cowardice.

I say people who feel they must have a faith or religion in order to face life are showing a kind of cowardice, which in any other sphere would be considered contemptible. But when it is in the religious sphere it is thought admirable, and I cannot admire cowardice whatever sphere it is in.

The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.