Pranab Mukherjee Quotes

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

I'd never hurt another person.

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

Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.

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

Violence against violence? That will never solve the problem.

I think violence can never be justified.

People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.

With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.

Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.

When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.

One can imagine nonviolent or minimally violent ways to reduce or eliminate hatred, but there's no mollifying evil.

We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

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.

Anybody who resorts to violence will have no friends in the United States.

This is the vow to those consumed by hatred. We have but one path—waging war on them to the death.

… morality ends where the gun begins.

We can't afford to be killing one another.

Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.

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.

It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.

War would end if the dead could return.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.