Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.

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

It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.

Violence is absolutely not our method.

I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.

We are living in a time of many wars. The call for peace must be shouted. Peace sometimes gives the impression of being quiet, but it is never quiet. Peace if always proactive and dynamic.

No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.

Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.

And peace unweaponed conquers every wrong!

We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way of achievement.

Nonviolence has come among men and it will live. It is the harbinger of the peace of the world.

Nonviolence is the only way. Even if you achieve your goal by violent means there are always side effects, and these can be worse than the problem. Violence is against human nature.

Please be peaceful. We believe in law and order. We are not advocating violence, I want you to love your enemies... for what we are doing is right, what we are doing is just -- and God is with us.

Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances.

The way I'm going now is to focus on peace, to create peace. As Sister Corita said, "I don't go to anti-war rallies. I go to peace rallies."

Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.

Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.

The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.

You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.

We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence.

Violence is not the way.

Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.

The modern choice is between non-violence or non-existence.

Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.

Without real nonviolence, there would be perfect anarchy.