Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Nothing can justify war.

What is more immoral than war?

There is no such thing as a politically correct war.

I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.

I think war should be illegal.

A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.

All wars are tragedies, but not all wars are sins.

It is very difficult to do one's duty. I was considered a barbarian because at the storming of the Praga, 7,000 people were killed. Europe says that I am a monster. I myself have read this in the papers, but I would have liked to talk to people about this and ask them: is it not better to finish a war with the death of 7,000 people rather than to drag it on and kill 100,000.

In war there are no easy choices.

If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

At every step the vast majority have expressed horror at the idea of an aggressive war.

If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not 'honor' but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.

I'm not anti-war. I served in a war, and I served proudly. But just or not, necessary or not, war is the industrial-scale slaughter of other humans.

You cannot be politically correct in a war.

I’m not opposed to all wars; just dumb wars.

We believe in peace, but we are not pacifists. Sometimes we have to use force

This will be a war of extermination.

I don’t oppose all wars. And I know that in this crowd today, there is no shortage of patriots. Or of patriotism. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.